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SMARTPHONE CAMERAS HAVE advanced so much, it’s easy for us to take high-quality photos without much effort.
With the resolution and editing features available at our fingertips, we’re spoilt for choice, but this can’t help you if you’re not able to take a good photo.
An easy way to solve this is to activate the grid view, an option all cameras have. How you activate it differs from phone to phone.
Some camera apps allow you to activate it directly in the app itself while others require you to go into its settings. If you have an iPhone, you have to go into Settings > Photos & Camera and scroll down to activate it.
How does this help? It’s because the grid allows you to follow the rule of thirds, a technique which helps you take more engaging photos.
The rule breaks down your photo into nine parts – using two horizontal and two vertical lines – helping you frame your shot. The GIF below is a good example of how it works.
In its most basic terms, it discourages you from placing the subject in the very centre so at one of the points where the grid intersects, you should place your photo’s subject there on the one side.
They don’t need to be perfectly lined up but having the subject as close as possible to one or two intersections helps.
The lines can also be used to position background horizons as well. Placing it along one of the horizontal lines can also help improve a photo’s composition. In the photo below, the snail is located where the bottom-left intersection happens, giving it a more prominent position.
The other thing is you can still follow the same principle when you’re editing a photo. Cropping a photo can help you reposition the subject so it is close to the side.
You don’t always have to follow this rule, but when you get better at it, you will recognise the moments when you can break it.
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Thanks google. Thanks for starting a world where people walk around recording each other. I will never wear these.
Should read.
“Silly Virgin Atlantic press release, amounts to vast amounts of free advertising”
Minority Report meets Skynet
Time for infrared necklaces for everyone so you can protect your identity.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow
I’m a tech geek at heart and this technology is really cool BUT people have to be realistic and open there eyes, this is potentially one of the worst things to ever hit the self’s, privacy as we know it will be gone and our kids will never no what it is! Once its gone it will never come back, Scott Barry style
Fyi tech geeks tend to have good grammar and spelling.
The thing I’m dreading most about this technology is women walking down the street behind me checking out my sweet little ass.
It gives them the capability to perv on me when I’m not even around!
Yeah because you can’t walk around recording people on you phone this last ten years.
Good one Adebayo.
Big difference in phone recording and these glasses. A few examples, your on a beach with your toddler and some stranger starts pointing a phone at your child filming them. If your a vigilant parent your going to notice this and one way or another put a stop to it and make other people aware of a potential pervert in your midst. Beach full of people lots wearing glasses any sicko can now do this unnoticed. Burgler scoping out your house standing with phone risk of being seen. Burgler walking slowly along with glasses on no problem. Taking cash out at an ATM using card in shop etc person with glasses good chance they can zoom in on your pin. Seriously dangerous piecof technology in the wrong hands and that’s aside from everyday invasions of privacy.
Soz, only seeing this now as you didn’t hit reply. Walking around with a phone outstretched pointing in someones face since 2004 isnt something I have seen too much of, in day to day life, like transactions at a till etc but hey maybe I haven’t been paying attention.
PIN numbers are so last year love! We have fingerprint scanners here in Brazil now no need for a PIN number so don’t be worrying!
*On all ATM machines
I foresee (sorry!) terrible eye problems down the line if these become the norm.
I remember these from ‘Beyond 2000′!
Welcome to the future. Bare in mind that the airlines have been the test bed for realtime transactions and date analysis since the 1960′s.
I like Virgin Atlantic. I flew here via London from SFO. Treated like a human being. Wonderful staff. Comfortable seats (and I’m 6’4″, 210lbs). The other airlines should pay attention to VA. They know how to treat people.
The glasses? Couldn’t care less. The terminal is plastered with cameras anyway.
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