willachieveacompositionthattheviewerwillperceiveas
unified,harmonious andbalanced.It is thoughtthatthis
formofcompositionissuccessfulasoureyesareableto
interpret the area of a square more easily.
Once thesehavebeenmastered, diagonalscanbe drawn
from each point at the edge of the rectangle towards each of
thecorners,allowingthephotographertoaligntheirfocal
points along these.
Fig. 6.9
Golden ratio overlay in Lightroom showing how to
use it to crop the image with the correct
composition.The Golden Ratio 1:1.618
Themostsophisticatedtoolforthephotographertoutilize
whencomposinganimageisthegoldenspiral(sometimes
referredtoasthegoldenmean,theFibonaccispiralorratio,
the divine proportion, or Phi).