Toke Eskildsen wrote:

Vaidd wrote:

See http://www.psppower.com/2002may/crop2.htm under dynamic
cropping.
This relates the rule of thirds to the golden ratio (section)

Note 'the rule of thirds' as given above does not mean dividing
the sides equally into three.

It gives a third placement of the lines, even farther from the center
than the Rule of Third is. Now I'm confused.

He's mixing his terminology. What he's doing is the Golden Section. Keep
in mind that the Golden Section refers to a very specific rectangle,
1:1.618. So unless your image is a rectangle of that proportion the
Golden Section isn't going to work out exactly in any case. 35mm film is
24x36mm, which works out to 1:1.5, close but not the specific rectangle
you need for a Golden Section. I expect that this is why the Rule of
Thirds came about, you can apply it to *any* rectangle.

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