Pale poppy

[parahandy]

From a friends garden pale but interesting. About 7 inches across

[molucca]

Norman,

I drew two grids for positioning images. The idea is to place the subject at an intersect point. I place the grid over an image and adjust the grid, then snap a rectangle to the grid area. The outer area is to mask the image to better see what I am going to get. Then remove the grid drawing and intr the rectangle with the image.

Rich

[parahandy]

Rich.
I Know you are tring to tell me something but the technicqlities of what you are saying are beyond my old brain. Are you saying this is a way to get the main point of interest of a picture to be central.

[molucca]

Norman,

Not central. More of a position that is more pleasing to the viewer.
For example, a landschape would be 1/3 ground and 2/3 sky. Look up photo composition. I am not very good at this. I position the butterfly eye at an intersection point of a Golden Mean Grid.

Rich

[Soquili]

Hi Norman,

I hope you don't mind but I cropped your image to achieve a Golden Thirds version.

If you use Rich's xar file and place the point of interest at one of the intersections you achieve the Golden Thirds rule of images.

[raynerj1]

They seem off centered to me. A persons eye is drawn towards the center. To add interest, one puts the subject just slightly off center. Postioning for landscape and portraits shots are different. You can bring the subject more towards the top on a portrait shot.