This may not be something you here everyday but believe me most photos look better when your subject is not essentially centered. You might have noticed a grid option in your digital camera or even your smartphone setting, enable it and you'll see a grid of nine equal sections overlaying your viewfinder/ screen. Place your subject of interest for photography on these lines or their intersection, and check the results! This Rule of Third originate from the theory that human eye instinctively gravitates towards the intersection points that comes when image is divided into thirds. It gives a natural pleasing affect to the viewer and also allows a creative use of negative space, the empty area around the visual interest. It is a play of ''third lines''. In case of a landscape, If you are capturing a horizon place it by either the top or bottom third line, depending upon whether the subject of your photography is above or on the ground/sea. For instance you are capturing a building, your horizon should fall near the upper third, but if your focus are flying birds or a sunrise, the horizon should be placed near the lower third. If a foreground subject is present- like a person, tree or animal, compose it against the left or right third line.
Photo Credit: K Praslowicz
In case of portraits, our stare naturally wanders towards the subject's eyes. Place them on one of the intersections in the grid, the upper preferably.
In case of vertical subjects, they can be placed splitting the photo in two similarly as a horizon does horizontally. In case of moving subjects, make use of the direction of their movement. Leave space in their front to give the sense of their direction.
You can always use an editing software and apply the rule of thirds by cropping your picture and then see the positive change.
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