tainkc wrote:
Seriously now, How does the rule of 3rd's really make a difference shooting photos of the moon? I shot it at F7.1 so no stars are in the background. Your eye is automatically drawn to the subject and not some corner of the photograph. And, it is cropped. So who cares?
How I took this shot: I used a semi-gloss backdrop (they are real cheap and can be found in any backyard at night).
I used a 2 light system. For my main I used the sun @ 5500 kelvin angled up from camera left at 45 degrees. For my fill light, I used a flashlight hand held As strange as it seems, I set my white balance at AWB since I saw no difference using a gray card. I couldn't even see the gray card.
I usually shoot all my portraits in B&W but this time I wanted to try it in color. I used a 300mm lens backed off to280mm.
Seriously now, How does the rule of 3rd's really m... (
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Should be called the GUIDELINE fo thirds, or the SUGGESTION of thirds, the RULE of thirds does not apply in this format as a HARD RULE. Then again not much does.