Tut 01 : The Rule of Thirds, what's behind ?So here we are, my first little article about "photography" ! Sorry in advance for my bad English, hope you will be able to get through

To begin this adventure, I wanted to start up-front with a concept I am sure many of you have heard of : drum-roll... "The Rule of Thirds" !
It is certainly the most controversial and well known composition rule. Half of the world says :
Follow this rule ! it is the key to lovely pictures
The other half screams :
This is nonsense, there is no rule, be free and walk your own path !
So where is the truth ? who's right or wrong ? What should I do ?
I do not say that I have the answer, but at least I can share with you what I feel about that. And what I feel is that this rule is actually less of a rule and more of a particular case. Yep, you heard me right, this rule may actually be seen as a simple example of much larger concepts.
The Rule
If you're not familiar with this rule, here is a little reminde

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_{Another HDR workshop available!

Use the download button to get yourself a .zip package containing 5 individual exposures in jpg files. No 'single RAW method' was used here; all exposures are truly individual and tripod was not used ---> Note that in the alignment settings of your HDR software!

So here's what to do;
Download the files.
Prepare your HDR image with your preferred software / tonemap it. (about tonemapping in Wikipedia: [link] )
Edit the image further if you wish since I believe that tone mapping only takes you half-way at best.
..and finally upload your creation on dA.

I have just one request; Post me a link to your creation! I always enjoy seeing what you have come up with my files.}Now hit the download button and see what you can do with this workshop.

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~apacz Mar 22, 2012

My version [link]

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*arphot Mar 21, 2012

My version. I might have to take another tackle at it though. Not sure it's quite right.
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*wchild Mar 22, 2012 Photographer

Looks right for me!

*imonline Mar 21, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Here's the one I made: [link]

*wchild Mar 21, 2012 Photographer

Great!

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