EX74 Divine Proportions
We learn that nature grows in the Fibonacci Sequence and is the basis for natural design.
“The Fibonacci Sequence turns out to be the key to understanding how nature designs... and is... a part of the same ubiquitous music of the spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals, shells, suns and galaxies and makes the Universe sing.”
We also learn that the golden ratio is used by designers and artists when they need something to fall back onto when they need something to hang onto.
“ When I am composing nothing is that cerebral. That is the kind of thing that would come in on a commercial job when I am dealing with a pretty boring subject. I would go, oh well, the best thing I can do is use the rule of thirds… You are not dividing the composition up into design analysis… It is really what feels right.”
This weeks exercise is to see if you can get it right with your intuition, and then to see if adjusting to the theory actually improves the composition. You can explore the rule of thirds, the divine proportion, sacred spirals, or sacred diagonals.
Take a photograph and place the centre of interest and the centre of attention in the place it works best for you. Perhaps you could take a second photograph and shoot a bit wider to give you some room to crop latter.
Post your intuitive photograph.
In your processing software, adjust the photograph to get the crop and centre of interest exactly to one of the theories presented.
Which photograph is better? Does following the divine proportions actually improve your work. Does it matter to you?
Help others by letting them know your preferences for their compositional choices.
This weeks exercise will skip the weekly discussion as Len will be away on his holiday with his son.
Please post your discussions and photographs in the post at Len’s Club
“Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.”
