The Rule of Thirds is one of the most fundamental concepts in photo composition. And if you understand what it really means then you’ll know when to use it….and when to break it.
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Joshua Cripps is a full-time landscape photographer living near Yosemite National Park in California. His recent work includes the worldwide marketing campaign for the Nikon D750 camera.
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I now have fun with photography
16 secs time wasted time on intro
Wow. Incredibly beautiful background and informative. Thank you!
This is totally going to help me with landscape paintings
Possibly the best explanation I've encountered dealing with the infamous Rule Of Thirds. I like to say that the only Rule in photography is to pick a photogenic subject and compose it creatively…or is that 2 rules? Anyway the Rule of Thirds is one of the most misunderstood and misapplied rules in photography and this excellent video goes a long ways towards clearing things up.
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this video is more helpful than most that exceed the 3 minute length
im taking a photography class and this really helped thank you! one of my goals is to become professional photography and maybe make my way into cinematography
2:55 is the same place Of the wallpaper from Windows 10
thanks for the info great
thankss a lot
Great explanation Josh.
Another great instructional video. However, I wish you would do away with that repetitive intro that I just have to fast forward past every time.
Very informative and positive. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
You deserve over 10 million subs mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Happy shooting"
Thanks for your useful tips 🙂
Great video. Very help full…
Awesome explanation. Like your cool style, bro 🙂 (pun intended) Thank you very much!
awesome thanks
The "Rule of Thirds" is the dumbest thing to ever enter the world of photography… "Rules" impose limitations, and limitations are bad… When I see something I want to capture on "film" – a person, a place, a scene – I give myself absoulte freedom to take that photo in any way I think is best at the time. And doing that today is so much easier with digital cameras and the joy that is "Burst" mode.
This is kinda vague and not descriptive enough.
I just watched a bunch of shit videos…man you smashed it. Thank you.
thnx bro u helpin me for my exam
wow man you made rule of third so simple.thanks a ton
I am enjoying your videos, you have personality and flare, it sets you apart, you know your stuff and present it in a fun way, i also enjoy the demonstrations too.
good vid! what lens do you use?
thx a lot sir happy shooting
Incredible insight and great composed lesson. Thanks!
Now enter "Content Aware'" in Photoshop and instead of a decently composed photo, we now get badly composed sttrreeecctthhheeeddd to stick to the rule of thirds.
Now I know what it is. Phewww thank you 😅
I have never really looked into the Rule of Thirds, but knew what it was instinctively, you might say. Thanks for describing it in such an interesting way.
Really helpful, thanks!
I have uploaded few images to Shutterstock but rejected due to Poor Composition and exposure. Thanks for the tutorial.
No master artist or master photographer ever used the rule of thirds. It's a dead-end compositional tool that offers nothing in the way of harmony, rhythm or flexibility. The rule of thirds is nothing more than an abstract watered down cookie cutter concept of composition. Master artists use Dynamic Symmetry.
Do you have any advice for cameras? I'm looking to get a new camera but unsure what to go for.
Thank you! When you said the rule of thirds is more about balance it immediately became less scary and number orientated
great job!! love the sense of humour and also the extremely helpful information. thank you so much!
Great video, Josh!
I'm wondering, do you perhaps have a 10-24 f/3.5-4.5 for your DX camera? If you do, would you recommend it for the kind of landscape photography that you do? What else do you use for that and would you recommend?
Found one of you videos 30 minutes ago, i am already to the 5th will probably have watched everythign by noon ! Thanks and keep it up !!!
Thanks Josh,
Very helpful since I am planning on spending a lot of time visiting National Parks.
thanks for making it easy to understand, most helpful videos on youtube for sure!
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This is educational and funny. Well done!!
Would be even better if I could get that *&^%&% advertisement out of the picture area and lose the white bar at the top and bottom of the screen!
You always have an awesomly beautiful background in your videos, i'm jealous dude 😀 great videos mate, keep up !
It would be awesome if when you show you're photos you put the settings in the corner or something 🙂 would be awesome
You look like sea nanners and Mathew Santoro mixed together