Official BeyondUnreal Photography Thread

[Zur]

This is a true photographer. He took his time to line up the shot according to the rule of thirds before he asked me how I was after biting the dirt:

What is this rule of thirds ?

 

[shadow_dragon]

What is this rule of thirds ?

It is more or less as it sounds;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

It's a usefull guideling but there are always exceptions.

 

[MonsOlympus]

Ive heard people talk about the rule of thirds alot in regards to photography, myself I prefer to use this one: Golden section

 

[shadow_dragon]

Ive heard people talk about the rule of thirds alot in regards to photography, myself I prefer to use this one: Golden section

Jeez i'm about halfway through that stuff and i still have no idea how to apply any of it to photography? It's sounds like a pointlessly complex way of achieving more or less the same thing... sort of... with the golden rectangle bit...


Edit - http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Golden-Ratio-in-Digital-Photography&id=769717 these seems a bit more informative. Mathematics is nice but i take photos with my hands not my calculator.

 

[MonsOlympus]

Yeah its similar I guess, I always thought the rule of thirds was the easy way of sayin something similar. You will find with the golden section though when you use 2b's with one being along a, the middle is smaller than a perfect square.

We used it alot in design when I was at tafe, not only for composition both symmetrical and asymetrical but hidden inside the drawings/designs themselves. I wouldnt worry so much about the math behind it but it does give some insight into architecture that uses it where the rule of thirds page doesnt have any of that.

 

[Bi()ha2arD]

was at the IAA today. ill post pics later.

eidt: here they are: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bi0ha2ard/

 

[Jackal]

Canon Cameras have this "rule of thrids" built into their cameras. You have to turn it on.

It's called "grid" though.

(of course this applies to my 40D, and I can't garuntee it works on all cameras)

 

[Bi()ha2arD]

Canon Cameras have this "rule of thrids" built into their cameras. You have to turn it on.

It's called "grid" though.

(of course this applies to my 40D, and I can't garuntee it works on all cameras)

only on the liveview display, but i didnt shoot with that.

and you didnt really have enough room to take nice pictures most of the time
my wide angle lense gave me "connection to camera is bad" every other pic so i had to use my tele.

 

[shadow_dragon]

Canon Cameras have this "rule of thrids" built into their cameras. You have to turn it on.

It's called "grid" though.

(of course this applies to my 40D, and I can't garuntee it works on all cameras)

The grid is on most cameras in one form or another but having the grid on and understanding aesthetic compositional principles are two different things

 

[WaitForTheRain]

A few I took today, nothing great..

I really like the first one, the bricks create a really weird pattern that makes it difficult to determine what angle it was taken from. I'm guessing that it was taken looking up, no?

 

[Slainchild]

Rotate it so the sky is at the top, yeah. I thought it looked better sideways.

 

[Jacks:Revenge]

time for another photodump.

I haven't been to a good-old-fashioned air show since I was a kid. so on a whim, me and some buddies went to a pretty good sized show that was going on at Scott Air Force Base this Saturday.

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[screenshot]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1945/show12w.jpg[/screenshot]

good times.
a lot of the stuff going on in the air I wasn't able to capture since we never sat down for a minute. pretty much the whole day we were walking around the runways talking to pilots and looking at the planes which were sitting out so you could get up close.

 

[Kantham]

Dude, those 2 last shots are all I wanted to see! :tup:
Is that a F-51 Mustang in the 3rd shot?

 

[Jacks:Revenge]

Is that a F-51 Mustang in the 3rd shot?

well... the "3rd shot" is a modern F/A-18 Superhornet.

now if you meant the 3rd shot from the last, then yes it's P-51 Mustang flying alongside a few other modern jets. that part of the show was like a "evolution of military flight" demonstration where they had the Mustang fly with 3 modern jets, each one newer than the one above it. so like the one on the bottom of the stack is the latest version.

 

[BillyBadAss]

And it's back!!!! Thanks Haarg.

In Places They Will Never Find Us

 

[das_ben]

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[Slainchild]

Nice pics, I like the angles you choose in them (not just these).

 

[Zarniwoop]

Woot, it's back! Thanks Haarg.

 

[Lizard Of Oz]

Sorry guys. I accidentally deleted this thread in a spam killing spree.



Thanks to Haarg for the restoration.

 

[Hazel.H]

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Boo!