Rule of Thirds - Activity 2

On the second day of photography we learnt how to use the rule of thirds.  To use this method you have to add a grid on Photoshop, so that the picture you added onto Photoshop is in line with the rule of thirds.  To create a grid on Photoshop, you have to go too VIEW and find RULERS and when you click on rulers there will be a guide on the Y and X axis.  Then you have to change the measurements from centimetres to percentages on PREFERENCES.  You have to make the grid into 9 and to do this you have to put 2 lines on the Y axis and 2 lines on the X axis, 1 at 33.3% and another on 66.6%.

This is how the rule of thirds would like like in Photoshop when there isn't a picture behind it.

































This picture has been edited to fit in the grid.  In the original (below) there wasn’t enough grass on the low horizon so to add in some more grass I duplicated the layer and dragged it up so there has some extra grass and used a smooth edged rubber to smooth it out, and now all of it fits in with the grid having the grass as a low horizon the high horizon the hills and the sky and in-between the low and high there is a town.

This photo was taken by dropping a stone into the puddle and then taking the picture of the ripples that the stone made.  As you can see there is one big ripple in the middle.  I had to enlarge the picture so that it fit in within the grid, you can see in the middle square where the stone was dropped in and the edges of the ripple are outside of the centre square.  Outside of the centre square there is also lots of smaller ripples, but as the picture was enlarged some of them have been cut out.

This photo of the green on a golf course the flag that is in the hole is exactly in the middle square because it is the main focus of the picture.  In the bottom middle there is a small plant and it is out of focus, I didn't mean for it be like but it look better that it is out of focus, so that the main focus is still the flag.  Originally the flag was not dead on centre so I had to duplicate the layer so that  I could move it up so that it was central and then used a soft edged rubber so that it didn't look odd at the bottom and I love that you can see the horizon at the top of the picture.

 





























This photo of the sun behind the tree on Werneth Low is good you can just see the sun glaring threw the tree.  This isn't the original photo I enlarged it so that the sun would be in the middle of the grid. The majority of the leaves are on the right hand side of the photo and then there a few leaves on the left hand side and then you can also see the sky.  The natural light on this photo makes it look good.