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Old 15-01-2010, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by AlexN View Post
I dunno Andrew, I think the 2/3rds principal extends from photography into astro photography.. I really quite like seeing targets interestingly framed... All too often you see images with a target dead center in the field of view... Whilst on some larger targets its the only way to do it, sometimes I find it a little monotonous... I really liked the off center framing of this shot...
I understand your point Alex and a long while ago we had a discussion on here about that very same thing.
It's a personal thing of course, but to me the rule of thirds just doesn't seem to work on astro images unless there's more than one object in the frame and that you can balance it so.

I just think that a single main object being offset on a starry background isn't as pleasing.
It usually works for terrestrial but not for astro IMO.
With astro I like to see the main point of interest in the centre of a starry sky.
For some reason it feels more precise to me.

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