The Golden Ratio

No worries - I understood what you said Bifurcator, although I had to read it twice!

I think it might help me thing about how to compose my macro shots - but I wonder if there are are other creative uses for it... Maybe it's not so useful for concert photography like I specialise in as I have to do so much in such a short time - composition has to be instinctive. But perhaps I can cultivate my instinct somewhat by thinking about these things. Plus I need to develop my reportage work...
 
No worries - I understood what you said Bifurcator, although I had to read it twice!

Sometimes I have to read his stuff three or four times. :lol:

I think it might help me thing about how to compose my macro shots - but I wonder if there are are other creative uses for it... Maybe it's not so useful for concert photography like I specialise in as I have to do so much in such a short time - composition has to be instinctive. But perhaps I can cultivate my instinct somewhat by thinking about these things. Plus I need to develop my reportage work...

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Thought you might like to know it's quite possible.
 
Nice links kun-dude! Sorry about the use/misuse of language. :D Try as I might it's hard having a book of information detail in mind while trying to write sound-byte sized replies. :D
 
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Thought you might like to know it's quite possible.

Good find!!! I did look at some of my work afterwards and notice how the guitar neck and the angle it's typically held at does make for the nice diagonal shape in those close up shots. It's not difficult to accidentally compose something that conforms to one of the Golden Ratio angles!
 
Great read! I loved that. Really interesting, who says math doesn't apply to photography? XD

Its really cool how easily you you can follow the golden ratio without even meaning to.
 
The golden ratio actually goes back the the ancient Greeks and possibly further.
I use it when I begin a furniture design.
Almost anything is more pleasing if the proportions are right- think Christie Brinkley and Cindy Crawford.
The golden ratio is so pervasive, or should I say it is ubiquitous in our culture that we recognize it subconsciously, even if we have never heard of it. This like perspective works to ease our eyes and if the rules are bent of broken, it is jarring to our perception, which is as legitimate a goal as anything else.
Judge Sharpe
 
The golden ratio actually goes back the the ancient Greeks and possibly further.
I use it when I begin a furniture design.
Almost anything is more pleasing if the proportions are right- think Christie Brinkley and Cindy Crawford.
The golden ratio is so pervasive, or should I say it is ubiquitous in our culture that we recognize it subconsciously, even if we have never heard of it. This like perspective works to ease our eyes and if the rules are bent of broken, it is jarring to our perception, which is as legitimate a goal as anything else.
Judge Sharpe

... goes off to photograph Christie and Cindy to see if JS is correct :)
 
Before you get all wet about the golden ratio, look at portraits of people and see that the 'golden ratio' includes too much vertically for good composition.

Virtually every portrait/torso photo I've seen looks better cropped as a 4 x5.
 

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