Lesson 5 and Helpful Link

[TAD08]

Can someone please tell me if these would be good for Rules of Third and Leading Lines for Lesson 5? Thanks!:)

Here is a link for a neat Rules of Third Tool I found:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~egolub/PhotoApps/CompositionRulesVisualizer/

I hope it is ok to post it here.

[veldamirx]

I'm on this lesson too, so keep that in mind with my critique. I could be way off here.

I really like your Rule of Thirds photo, in fact I was planning to submit something very similar.

Your leading lines photograph leaves me wanting more... I find the sign (or whatever it is) on the extreme right to be distracting. I think I would have tried to move the lamp towards the top right of the photo a little more (I think that would have put the horizon a little higher around the 1/3 line) and towards the right some more (cropping the sign out). Its quite a good shot, that sign is just really distracting I think.

[debbiedube]

when i sent my in the water one was something the same and they told me it was more for the leading line rule but the one for the tree should be fine

[coffee]

I'm on this lesson too, so keep that in mind with my critique. I could be way off here.

I really like your Rule of Thirds photo, in fact I was planning to submit something very similar.

Your leading lines photograph leaves me wanting more... I find the sign (or whatever it is) on the extreme right to be distracting. I think I would have tried to move the lamp towards the top right of the photo a little more (I think that would have put the horizon a little higher around the 1/3 line) and towards the right some more (cropping the sign out). Its quite a good shot, that sign is just really distracting I think.

I agree with veldamirx. If fact if it were me, I would use the second shot as my ROT shot, but I would make the changes vel talked about with these differences. I would crop out some of the right and sky of the image so the horizon is at the top thirds, and clone out the sign so as not to lose any of the right side of the image. I would also add a little hue or a touch of satuation to bring out the colors a touch.

[TAD08]

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate all your help.
I submitted 5 photos and my tutor chose this photo for leading lines but said it should have been leading to the main subject, that way it's leading somewhere rather than just into the background.
Having fun taking pictures and learning!:)