I was so engrossed in the process of shooting this spider web that I totally forgotten about the Rule of Thirds.

Wikipedia says: “The rule of thirds is a compositional rule of thumb in photography and other visual arts such as painting. The rule states that an image can be divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines. The four points formed by the intersections of these lines can be used to align features in the photograph.

Proponents of this technique claim that aligning a photograph with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the photo than simply centering the feature would”.

Perhaps that’s what I did when took this picture — I simply centered the center of the subject. Here’s another view about the Rule of Thirds: you must first know the rules before you can effectively break them.

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