Rule of Thirds Summary

The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically) so that you have nine parts. As you're taking an image you would have done this in your mind through you viewfinder or in the LCD display that you use to frame your shot. With this grid in mind the 'rule of thirds' now identifies four important parts of the image that you should consider placing points of interest in as you frame your image. Not only this - but it also gives you four 'lines' that are also useful positions for elements in your photo.

The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines that you photo become more balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally. Studies have shown that when viewing images that people's eyes usually go to one of the intersection points most natural rather than the center of the shot - using the rule of thirds works with this natural way of viewing an image rater than working against it.

Reflection

I think that it's a cool way to take images. Especially if you're trying that get a landscape or something like that. My favorite thing about taking photos are being able to take beautiful landscape pics. I never knew that taking a picture a certain way was called the "rule of thirds" I low key thought that it was honestly just a picture. But now that I've read this article everything seems to be making complete sense to me now.