Rule of Thirds

 Well, I'm not 100% happy with this photo but it does show the idea of the rule of thirds. I pass these horses on the way to my parents house on the weekends but since I have been wanting to photograph them, they have not been out. I would've preferred if this horse didn't have the mask over their eyes but as they are not my animals, I couldn't do anything about that. The picture on the left is using the Rule of Thirds and adds a little interest because it looks as though the horse is peeking around the bush, which was exactly what he was doing. He must've heard my camera because it caught his interest. When I cropped in on the photo to center the horse, you can see the horse clearer but you lose the aspect of him hiding behind the bush.

We took the kiddos camping this week. A man who worked at the campground said that he sees a doe and her fawn in this field quite often. My son and I went up to go wait and see if the deer would come out. While waiting I snapped a couple pictures of him. The one on the left is using the Rule of Thirds which I think works better in this case because you can see the huge open field to his left where we were waiting for the deer. While the picture of him centered is cute, it doesn't tell anything about what we were doing or where we were.

These photos of my daughter are the same concept of the ones of my son. We had gone back up to the field to check again and I decided to take a quick moment to take the photos. I think I actually like the centered one better in this case because the path by the field actually interrupts the background scene. The light was being a little tricky and once the bee buzzed by her, there was no more chance of this photo op!