| Its basically a way - that some people say - to make a photograph more pleasing to view. What you do is pretend to visualize a tic-tac-toe board on a photo graph. You'll have two vertical lines and two horizontal lines. Those lines made 9 squares in the photograph (imaging where you draw or Xs and Os if you were playing tic-tac-toe.
The lines and where they intersect can be used as guides to lining up certain features of the photograph. It keeps things nice and neat and also equidistant to each other. The rule of thirds though, should just be used as a guide since it works great with some photos, not so with other photos.
A photo that you set up, like a still shot, or a landscape shot of scenery is easy to apply the rule of thirds to through your cameral lens. But an action shot, such as a sporting even, vehicles, or a motion blur are tough to apply the rule of thirds to since everything is moving. |