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Let us delve deeper into composition, this time with the “Golden triangle”, also known as the “Golden section”, or the “Golden rectangle”.

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How to draw the Golden triangle

Basic concept is that you start off with a rectangle (your viewfinder or frame), then draw a diagonal line from the bottom left to the top right of the frame.

After, you draw the “perpendicular” line from the bottom right to the top middle, which intersects the prior diagonal line at a 90 degree angle.

Lesson: Your eyes are drawn to the intersecting points, called the “eye”:

Now if you want to get nerdy, then you can complete the line