Bill Lockhart’s Blog » The Golden Ratio and Photographic Composition
Composition is fundamental to photography. And, if you are like me, it is often problematic. I have tried to follow the “rule of thirds” in most of my compositions, but there are times, especially in landscape photography where the rule simply is not pleasing to my eyes.

So recently, I have been using the golden ratio to examine ways to produce images that seem more balanced, that is, images that have an harmonic flow, if you will. The photograph of the castle ruins above is an example of how I tried to apply the golden ratio to a composition using a grid that emulates the ratio.