Rule of Thirds in Field

Front Focus

Back Focus

Looking to Top Right

Tree

Object

Landscape

Facing Camera

Looking to the Side

2 Looking at Camera

Advanced Portrait Study Part B

Looking Right

Looking Left

Facing Forward

I've definitely noticed that it's easier to show emotion when facing to the side, but in my personal experience with this project I agree that the photos facing left were more emotional. I adjusted hue and saturation in all of these photos, I turned saturation all the way down for black in white in my facing right example which ended up making it show less emotion than my example of facing left where I only turned it partially down, and also adjusted the hue because I thought the deep magenta in her face was also emotional.

Advanced Portrait Study Part A

Weird Angel

Smile

Out of Comfort Zone

Looking Within Frame

Candid

Looking Off Frame

Experiment with Lighting

Warhol Effect

Double Exposure

Fake HDR

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Rule of Thirds

In this photo the left top intersection aligns with her eye which pulls the focus to her eyes and face, and her ear is on the right third which pulls attention to her ears and earrings.

 

For this one the subject is Ryan and his head is on the top right intersection of the photo, the left intersection lines up with the left vertical line, which adds to the feeling of isolation.

In this one the mini library and the car line up with the two bottom intersections which draws attention to them Also the roof of the porch lines up with the top third which draws attention to the house.

The rule of thirds is a way to draw attention and utilize design. Humans are hardwired to find thirds pleasing so photos with subjects aligned with thirds look more artistic and pleasing to look at. An image that uses the rule of thirds will look much more natural and comfortable to the viewer.