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Math; Wednesday, First Period [11/17].
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hashtag_chocobroIt was a little weird these days, being back in Fandom so soon, but duty called! Specifically, Prompto's duty to be a substitute teacher for that math class, even though he hadn't had a math class since his Insomnia school days, but...well! All part of the job, he guessed, and, even though he had his doubts that his lesson was even going to be all that...math-y, he hoped the students would at least enjoy it?
He definitely was going to make them run like some people! Seriously, Gladio, dude, that had to be some kind of a complex or something...
"Hey, guys!" Prompto's grin and the lift of his hand in a wave was a little nervous, even if, by now, the class was probably used to seeing a different face each week. "Good morning. I'm Prompto, I usually teach....uhh, well, photography, I guess, but today, I'm your sub for math, and we're going to do...well...photography.
"There's a lot of math that goes into photography, actually, especially when you start getting into different lenses and scopes and things like that, but we're going to keep it way more simple than that, and we're going to talk about something that taps more into geometry, and can be used across the board in all kinds of art, not just photography, and that is what's called the rule of thirds.
"Basically, this is a rule followed when someone's trying to be mindful of the composition of their photograph, and it basically divides the image into thirds...thus the reason for calling it the rule of thirds, and it starts with a grid, like this," and he turned to draw a three by three grid on the board. "Three vertical, three horizonal, nine segments all together, and these lines are what you use to guide your framing. So, like, the best shots are going to utilize these spaces to give you the most visually pleasing effect.
"Now, this doesn't mean that all your pictures need to be centered around the middle square! You just generally want to line them up with one aspect of one of the lines, or, even better, utilize the power points, that's these," he circled the points on the grid, "where the lines intercect. If you frame your shot in interesting ways that play with the position of these power points, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a great photo!"
And Prompto broke it down a little further to explain how the rule of thirds helped keep your pictures interesting and more dynmatic, with a few examples from some of his own work, landscape shots of Fandom and Insomnia, at least two Issa pictures, and a cool leaf he saw on the way over here.
"And now," he said, turning with a grin, "I'll take some questions if you have them, but, really, what I wanted to do with the rest of the class is have you guys grab a camera and go out there and try to get a few pictures yourself using the rule of thirds. I have these cool grid overlays for the lenses, too, that can help you visualize it, unless you want to try and do it without. I'll give you guys, like, thirty minutes to go out and take some pictures, and then come on back and we should have some time to go over the pictures and see how well the rule of third applies. Sound good?"
It didn't really sound all that mathematical, now that he thought about it, but oh well! It was more mathmatical than running, at least!
He definitely was going to make them run like some people! Seriously, Gladio, dude, that had to be some kind of a complex or something...
"Hey, guys!" Prompto's grin and the lift of his hand in a wave was a little nervous, even if, by now, the class was probably used to seeing a different face each week. "Good morning. I'm Prompto, I usually teach....uhh, well, photography, I guess, but today, I'm your sub for math, and we're going to do...well...photography.
"There's a lot of math that goes into photography, actually, especially when you start getting into different lenses and scopes and things like that, but we're going to keep it way more simple than that, and we're going to talk about something that taps more into geometry, and can be used across the board in all kinds of art, not just photography, and that is what's called the rule of thirds.
"Basically, this is a rule followed when someone's trying to be mindful of the composition of their photograph, and it basically divides the image into thirds...thus the reason for calling it the rule of thirds, and it starts with a grid, like this," and he turned to draw a three by three grid on the board. "Three vertical, three horizonal, nine segments all together, and these lines are what you use to guide your framing. So, like, the best shots are going to utilize these spaces to give you the most visually pleasing effect.
"Now, this doesn't mean that all your pictures need to be centered around the middle square! You just generally want to line them up with one aspect of one of the lines, or, even better, utilize the power points, that's these," he circled the points on the grid, "where the lines intercect. If you frame your shot in interesting ways that play with the position of these power points, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a great photo!"
And Prompto broke it down a little further to explain how the rule of thirds helped keep your pictures interesting and more dynmatic, with a few examples from some of his own work, landscape shots of Fandom and Insomnia, at least two Issa pictures, and a cool leaf he saw on the way over here.
"And now," he said, turning with a grin, "I'll take some questions if you have them, but, really, what I wanted to do with the rest of the class is have you guys grab a camera and go out there and try to get a few pictures yourself using the rule of thirds. I have these cool grid overlays for the lenses, too, that can help you visualize it, unless you want to try and do it without. I'll give you guys, like, thirty minutes to go out and take some pictures, and then come on back and we should have some time to go over the pictures and see how well the rule of third applies. Sound good?"
It didn't really sound all that mathematical, now that he thought about it, but oh well! It was more mathmatical than running, at least!