Hi, Thursday, January 2, 2003, 3:22:00 PM, you wrote:
> I think a couple have mentioned the rule of thirds and the rule of the > golden mean. BTW: They're different ratios (1:1.618 vs. 1:1.667) and they > have a significantly different look to my eye. Interestingly, when I look I did point out in a post you may have missed in the flood that the rule of thirds is an approximation of the golden section. Adjacent pairs of the Fibonacci numbers (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ..,) increasingly approximate the golden ratio, phi: 1:2, 2:3, 3:5, ... So if you divide the frame into n equal parts, where n is one of the Fibonacci numbers, it's easy to find the 'right' spot. A third just happens to be a lot easier to deal with mentally in the viewfinder than 3/5s or 5/8s, and close enough is good enough (if you want to do this sort of thing). --- Bob "I hope we will never see the day when photo shops sell little schema grills to clamp onto our viewfinders; and the Golden Rule will never be found etched on our ground glass". - Henri Cartier-Bresson "The Decisive Moment"
