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The Official Esato Camera Phone Shootout Competition June 2011: Rule of Thirds |
reeflotz
Joined: Jun 15, 2010
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From: Philippines
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The Rule of Thirds
The rule of thirds is a compositional rule of thumb in visual arts such as painting, photography and design.
The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.
Source: Wikipedia
In other words, instead of placing the subject you are shooting in the center, place it nearer to the corner of a photo (at one thirds from the side or corner of the photo), in theory the photo should look more interesting when this rule is followed. 
Some Samples:
photo taken by io_bg:
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photo taken by littledevil8:
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photo taken by Amnesin:
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photo taken by sassho:
Original
More Samples: Click Here
General Rules:
Picture must be taken with a Camera Phone
Picture must be taken in the month of June year 2011
No photo post-processing allowed
Picture taken must be in accordance with the theme
You can change your entry 1 time only
Full size picture must be uploaded to http://www.esato.com/phonephotos/, then post here a resized picture with a minimum resolution (640x480 pixels) and post your image's link under your photo preview
The Official Esato Camera Phone Shootout Competition June 2011 begins now 
[ This Message was edited by: reeflotz on 2011-06-14 13:15 ] |
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tranced
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
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From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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Congrats for winning last month's!
Now this is somehow different. Why did you come up with this theme?
Use this photo instead: http://upload.wikimedia.org/w[....]s/c/ce/Rivertree_thirds_md.gif
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cyber-shoter
Joined: Apr 23, 2008
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From: East Borneo
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congratulation for winning dude......
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ceaser2008
Joined: Jul 14, 2008
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From: Surat, India
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Congratulation reeflotz for winning the competition. Before i wake up, the last month competition thread was locked so i am here thanking the guys who had vote for my pic, last month. This keeps me motivating to capture good pic and win the competition someday.
Rule of Third, very interesting theme.
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Hobbs
Joined: Oct 07, 2006
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From: Cape Town,South Africa
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interesting indeed.Congrats on winning last months comp.
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reeflotz
Joined: Jun 15, 2010
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From: Philippines
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@ Tranced I was thinking of a unique and wide theme, then searched google to look for photography themes then I found this.
The photo I used is exactly the same one, came from wikipedia.
[ This Message was edited by: reeflotz on 2011-06-01 07:52 ] |
hihihans
Joined: Mar 15, 2009
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From: Netherlands
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At first I thought you wanted 3 objects (rule of three).
This is something else, interesting.
For the promotion of this competition i'd like to ask you to put the following link into your signature.
[url=http://tinyurl.com/3nrf57u]Rule of Thirds.[/url]
[ This Message was edited by: hihihans on 2011-06-01 08:50 ] |
goldenface
Joined: Dec 17, 2003
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From: Liverpool City Centre
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Very interesting. There should be some quality entries this month. Good luck everyone.
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io_bg
Joined: Jan 09, 2008
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From: Bourgas, Bulgaria
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Nice theme! I hope there'll be more competitors than in May  |
mlife
Joined: Jan 16, 2003
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Congrats reeflotz.
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hihihans
Joined: Mar 15, 2009
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From: Netherlands
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Did anyone try to make some shots yet?
Good luck 
Thanks for the response in my quest to promote this competition.
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io_bg
Joined: Jan 09, 2008
Posts: 326
From: Bourgas, Bulgaria
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On 2011-06-02 23:07:21, hihihans wrote:
Did anyone try to make some shots yet?
Good luck
I tried today but I'm not really satisfied with the result. Will keep on taking pictures
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jhapo11
Joined: Mar 06, 2011
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nice theme for this month! i try my shot later! thanks hihans for the update! 
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reeflotz
Joined: Jun 15, 2010
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From: Philippines
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Found a site with great rule of thirds samples edited my first post for the link. Hopefully it'll give you guys more ideas
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jhapo11
Joined: Mar 06, 2011
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whats the site men? may i know? i want to see other samples of this kind of shot! 
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Posted: 2011-06-01 05:35
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