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reeflotz
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Posted: 2011-06-01 05:35
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The Rule of Thirds




The rule of thirds is a compositional rule of thumb in visual arts such as painting, photography and design.

The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.

Source: Wikipedia

In other words, instead of placing the subject you are shooting in the center, place it nearer to the corner of a photo (at one thirds from the side or corner of the photo), in theory the photo should look more interesting when this rule is followed.

Some Samples:
photo taken by io_bg:

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photo taken by littledevil8:

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photo taken by Amnesin:

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photo taken by sassho:

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More Samples: Click Here

General Rules:


Picture must be taken with a Camera Phone

Picture must be taken in the month of June year 2011

No photo post-processing allowed

Picture taken must be in accordance with the theme

You can change your entry 1 time only

Full size picture must be uploaded to http://www.esato.com/phonephotos/, then post here a resized picture with a minimum resolution (640x480 pixels) and post your image's link under your photo preview


The Official Esato Camera Phone Shootout Competition June 2011 begins now
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Posted: 2011-06-01 06:12
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Congrats for winning last month's!

Now this is somehow different. Why did you come up with this theme?

Use this photo instead: http://upload.wikimedia.org/w[....]s/c/ce/Rivertree_thirds_md.gif
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Posted: 2011-06-01 06:23
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congratulation for winning dude......
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Posted: 2011-06-01 06:32
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Congratulation reeflotz for winning the competition. Before i wake up, the last month competition thread was locked so i am here thanking the guys who had vote for my pic, last month. This keeps me motivating to capture good pic and win the competition someday.

Rule of Third, very interesting theme.
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Posted: 2011-06-01 08:04
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interesting indeed.Congrats on winning last months comp.
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Posted: 2011-06-01 08:16
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@ Tranced I was thinking of a unique and wide theme, then searched google to look for photography themes then I found this.

The photo I used is exactly the same one, came from wikipedia.
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Posted: 2011-06-01 09:40
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At first I thought you wanted 3 objects (rule of three).
This is something else, interesting.

For the promotion of this competition i'd like to ask you to put the following link into your signature.
[url=http://tinyurl.com/3nrf57u]Rule of Thirds.[/url]
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Posted: 2011-06-01 11:14
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Very interesting. There should be some quality entries this month. Good luck everyone.
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Posted: 2011-06-01 12:51
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Nice theme! I hope there'll be more competitors than in May
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Posted: 2011-06-01 14:09
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Congrats reeflotz. [addsig]
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Posted: 2011-06-02 23:07
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Did anyone try to make some shots yet?
Good luck

Thanks for the response in my quest to promote this competition.
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Posted: 2011-06-02 23:46
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On 2011-06-02 23:07:21, hihihans wrote:
Did anyone try to make some shots yet?
Good luck

I tried today but I'm not really satisfied with the result. Will keep on taking pictures
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Posted: 2011-06-03 04:16
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nice theme for this month! i try my shot later! thanks hihans for the update!
reeflotz
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Posted: 2011-06-03 10:09
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Found a site with great rule of thirds samples edited my first post for the link. Hopefully it'll give you guys more ideas
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Posted: 2011-06-03 10:11
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whats the site men? may i know? i want to see other samples of this kind of shot!
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