{"id":214,"date":"2009-04-11T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:27:11","slug":"should-diagonals-enter-the-image-from-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2009\/04\/11\/should-diagonals-enter-the-image-from-the-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Diagonals Enter the Image from the Corner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is often much debate as to whether or not diagonal elements of a composition should enter the frame from one of the corners.\u00a0\u00a0 As the images below show, I\u00a0strongly believe that they should.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Your\u00a0compositions will be more interesting and more powerful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This image of a Great Blue Heron with nesting material was created with the handheld Canon 400mm f\/4 IS DO lens and the EOS 50D. ISO 400. 1\/1000 sec. at f\/8. Central sensor AI Servo AF. At the moment of capture the sensor was not on the subject but the focus held. Note that I composed the image so that the heron&#39;s breast angled into the frame from the lower right corner.  The DO lenses are great when working from small watercraft as I was here.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Same bird, similar composition, different light. Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens with the EOS 1D MIII. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/80 sec. at f\/5.6. It is important to use the RGB histogram when creating silhouettes to avoid burning the RED channel.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is often much debate as to whether or not diagonal elements of a composition should enter the frame from one of the corners. As the images below show, I strongly believe that they should. Your compositions will be more interesting and more powerful. <\/p>\n<p> ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder This image of a Great Blue Heron with nesting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88,28,39,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88","category-800mm-f5-6","category-mkiii","category-sarasota","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}