Week Five - Rule of Thirds

This dorm room stifles my creativity! OK, enough with the excuses, I actually think these shots are kind of cute. Learning about the rule-of-thirds was eye-opening in the sense that I always noticed the different feeling an off-center picture provides, but the science behind it is fascinating! I often take things for face value when I first encounter them, something I should work on...
I took about 15 versions of these pictures, with different lighting and placement. The pictures with low lighting were too blurry and the pictures with medium lighting had funny shadows. The flash reflects well off of the (slightly) shiny shoes, which is cool. After all was said and done and I had chosen my favorites, I was uploading to blogger and noticed my foot in the top right corner of the second shot. Darn it! My inability to "fill the frame" nicely came back to bite me again. About the rule-of-thirds... I'm unhappy with these pictures in general, so I don't have a favorite. Maybe if the bottom one had text or something in the blank area (and no sock :( ) it would be interesting.