3rds

I have a pose-able artist's dummy that I chose to use as my subject for the rule of thirds. I thought it got much more interesting as I moved away from having it centered within the frame. I started by having the full object in the viewfinder and centered. I then shifted the object to one side of the frame while still keeping it from crossing out of frame. I then punched in closer so that the object was being cropped slightly from both the bottom and right sides of the frame. I then moved in even closer so that a much larger portion of the object was cut off by the framing. I like the fourth picture best because the cropping and off-center framing create a lot more interest from what is otherwise a basic figure. The one thing that I like from the first three figures that is absent in the final picture is the sun streaming in over the shoulder. The sun was covered more in this 4th picture, which instead started to put the figure into silhouette, which adds its own sort of interest and mystery into this picture.