Rule of thirds

[MrB]

If only someone had advised Andreas Gursky to wait for the golden hour and a dramatic sky for shooting a landscape, to position himself so that there is an object of interest in the foreground and, of course, to compose or crop his image to place the horizon along the upper or lower third, the auction sale of his "Rhein II" print might have fetched a good price.

Philip

[Colin Southern]

If only someone had advised Andreas Gursky to wait for the golden hour and a dramatic sky for shooting a landscape, to position himself so that there is an object of interest in the foreground and, of course, to compose or crop his image to place the horizon along the upper or lower third, the auction sale of his "Rhein II" print might have fetched a good price.

Philip

Meh - it was heavily Photoshopped!

[FootLoose]

There is another compositional suggestion I try to follow ... the western world reads from left to right so is more comfortable if things in a photo are also moving left to right BUT and this phopto convieniently has it ready for us a dark tome on the right helps to stop the eye wandering off out of the photo so the solution here is to flip the image horizontally.

Woopsie!!! All the folk here who read an image right to left have just been existentially disorientated!!

[davidedric]

I think I read 'em middle out