Mobile phone photography nine-square grid method

Lead: Everything can get twice the result with half the effort as long as it follows the rules, and shooting is no exception, especially mobile phone photography with weak hardware. This is why we must study composition and follow the golden rule and the proportion of TIC-tac-toe composition. Let's have a look!

Photographs taken by Jiugongge composition method

In photographic composition, the picture is divided into three parts horizontally and vertically, and the intersection of lines is called the center of interest. When observing a photo, the eyes will be attracted to the interesting center first, so when taking a photo, arrange the main things as close as possible to the interesting center. Of course, when using the trisection method, you can also put the scenery on the golden section line, which will be more beautiful from the visual point of view, such as buildings or the horizon. The photos taken in this way are beautiful and will not be abrupt, which can improve the visual effect of the pictures in essence.

Gold spiral synthesis method

When it comes to composition, people will think of the old-fashioned composition method, or the nine-grid composition method, or the frame composition method, but how to apply it to photos is impossible. Here we have a deep understanding of it.

Simple and easy-to-use nine-grid composition method

How to make the picture active, apart from color, only work hard on composition, so there are many kinds of composition, of which the most used is the nine-square grid composition. Speaking of Jiugongge, experienced photographers may know it, in fact, beginners also know it, but it is also called "TIC-tac-toe composition". Why is this composition widely known? Because its usage rate is too high, and the subject matter is not limited, people, documentaries, landscapes and other subjects are all suitable, and the most important thing is simplicity.

In actual shooting, we can intuitively divide the screen into left, right, upper and lower sides and divide them into three equal parts, and then connect these corresponding points with straight lines to form a tic-tac-toe. The screen area is divided into nine equal squares, which is commonly known as "nine squares".

Jiugongge puts characters in the left third or right third of the picture. When shooting, we should take the environment and the characters as a whole, and choose the position of the characters with the changes of their movements.

Simply put, it is to put the subject on four points (or lines) and divide the picture into three parts. Don't let the subject be in the middle, which will meet everyone's aesthetic requirements. Note that in composition practice, we should constantly pursue novel composition forms according to the needs of expressing content, and we should not copy them mechanically, which is completely limited by them.

In addition, the nine-square grid is also conducive to confirming one-third of the horizon or referring to the camera viewfinder and display screen to confirm whether buildings and lines are straight, thus reducing our later workload.