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Stop Leaning on the Rule of Thirds (And What to Do Instead)
Every Sunday morning I take a photo walk around Seattle, and for the first year of doing it, nearly every single frame I came home with had the horizon sitting on the same horizontal third. Flowers in the lower third. Dramatic sky filling the upper two-thirds. It was compositionally “correct” and deeply, relentlessly boring. I didn’t even notice until I laid a grid over a month’s worth of shots and realized I’d essentially taken the same photograph forty times in different locations.
