Rule of thirds

Rule of thirds

The Rule of thirds is when you use vertical and horizontal lines to line up an image correctly so it looks professional and neat.  The image is split up into 9 boxes which shows how a subject is placed in an image. It can be used both portrait and landscape. A humans eye has been proved that it won't automatically look in the centre so that means that the main part of an image doesn't always have to be in the centre instead it an just be in the eye line of the photo. This will create a image which will look appealing to people. 

An example of this is this image. 

As you can see, the lines make the image look even and so photographers can use these lines to improve images. It shows the different subjects in the image and in this image, the person is on the line and so people will look at the person in eye line.