Design post 3-

 Design post 3-

Earlier in the week while we had a variety of projects and critiques, there was a few instances where rule of thirds and grids were mentioned, as lightroom from Adobe offers a wide variety of these grids to help improve the focus of a photograph. 

While I remember the use of rule of thirds in our digital media portion of the class, I wanted to further explore how to utilize this in my photography, and how they differ despite being the same thing.

While working on my "Exploring Texture" project I found that my phone also has some presets in it to help with rule of thirds, which helped me decide the best way to crop my image.

 Additionally it comes with a straighten tool, which was hard to showcase in just one photo, so hopefully this tilted screenshot helps demonstrate.

The grids, as we discussed in class, can help you align parts of your image that you may not notice are slightly tilted, items like mugs, cans, chairs, ect can be fixed so the minor difference doesn't appear off to the viewer. These grids can also help you with where your subject is placed, like in our digital media class, the poster design could be segmented into thirds, which made the visual easier to break down and process.

Lightroom also offers an automated version to straightening images, which is helpful a good amount of time! But to be used with caution, as the computer may not know which subject of the photo we're trying to appear straight.

Going back and reapplying what I learned about these sets of grids really helped me think more about my subject placement, both before and after shooting an image.