How To Take Better Photos Of Your Chickens

[jolenesdad]

I wish my phone could do this!

Do you have an Android phone?

 

[casportpony]

Do you have an Android phone?

Yes, a Motorola.

 

[jolenesdad]

Yes, a Motorola.

In your camera app when you’re looking at the camera is there a gear for options in the upper left hand corner? I think there should be a “grid lines” option there.

 

[Fuchsia]

Thanks this was great!

 

[casportpony]

Okay, so I got some gridlines on Photoshop!

How do I make this picture look better?

 

[casportpony]

Or this one?

 

[jolenesdad]

Ooooooh peacocks!

So the rule of thirds also works not on the grid lines.

you could have an image where the entire main subject of the photo lies within one of the entire third columns.

on your first image I would suggest maybe putting the entirety of the peacocks head and chest inside the far left column.

thirds are about two things.... where the eye is drawn to... and also perspective/space. That 1/3 to 2/3 positive/negative space is a naturally pleasing arrangement to the viewer. (This is why items are visually grouped in threes for merchandising and decor)

on the second photo I would crop into the face, keeping the face at one of the four intersection points of the grid. There are an endless array of sizing and cropping you can do but keep the face in a point and it will be great. Experiment with a close and further crop with the face on each of the four points before determining the final look...

 

[jolenesdad]

Maybe something like this? You can see how your eye follows the arch of the bird through to the face and you can sort of few that visual energy continuing....

 

[Ruby Rogue]

Great article.

 

[casportpony]

Maybe something like this? You can see how your eye follows the arch of the bird through to the face and you can sort of few that visual energy continuing....

How's this? I'm trying to get in the habit of cropping to landscape.