Fibonacci Spiral...

[robpendragon]

...or the Golden Spiral. This is a guide to cropping & composing your photos...http://www.thewonderoflight.com/tuto...omposition.htm You might find it very useful when you are trying to crop a photo. Now on to the best part...these grids are available in LR (if you did not already know) When in the develop module with the photo you want to work on; make sure the crop tool is selected, go to "view" then "crop guide overlay" & select the Golden Spiral or Golden Ratio. you can also lay down the Rule of thirds grid simply titled Thirds. Enjoy & be creative

[JulieM]

Thanks for that, Rob. I knew about the rule of thirds but had never heard of the Fibonacci spiral. I'll have to go check that out in LR now. My education is expanding...

[Edmund]

Thanks Rob, Great info and a great site.
Eddie

[tbrannon]

Great site Rob.
Some really good info there.
Thanks for sharing.

[Codebreaker]

I have a book called 'The Photographers Eye' by Michael Freeman. It goes into compositional details such as this but he has the grace to admit that it's hard to apply these principals at the time of shooting and that what mostly happens is intuition.

Post processing does help to get these rules established after the event.

Thanks for the tip about overlays. I'd pretty much got stuck on the rule of thirds. Now something else to try :-)

Colin