COMPOSITION
COMPOSITION - Fibonacci Spiral & Rule of Thirds
There are many schools of thought when it comes to what makes something pleasing to the eye. It can be something that you ‘just get’ over time or something you can train your eye to do. There are two main methods that you can use as guides. The Fibonacci Spiral and the Rule of Thirds. Just keep them mind when you are composing an image, not to let it overpower you too much, as you tend to forego your intuition. But it’s cool to look back at your work and see that ‘somehow’ your images just seem to have one or both of these elements in your work. Eventually you will see it more and more until it becomes second nature.
With the Fibonacci Spiral the basic idea is to place the area with the most details or activity in the smallest box of the coil, as well as trying to have the rest of the subject following or echoing the main curve as well. It will help lead your viewers eye around the image in an easy and natural way.
The end result is that your imagery will start to look more succinct. Note that I have both the spiral and thirds in these images.
To create a rule of thirds grid in Photoshop: press Command-K (Mac) or Ctrl-K (Win) to open your Preferences.
Click on Guides, Grid & Slices from the list on the left. Set Gridline every 100 percent and Subdivisions 3.
Then when you need to see it over an image go Co-” These grids will not print or be part of your saved images.
Fibonacci Spiral: In Photoshop go to the crop tool - in the options bar at the top, set it to Fibonacci Spiral.