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esoteric question
I figured since we were discussing other esoteric questions such as size and
photography/art theory that I could run this by you: everyone I'm sure is
familiar with the Golden Mean, Golden Section, roughly translated into
photography as the rule of thirds. Is, in the intersection of these
dividing lines and the resultant 4 points, the top right or the top left
point the strongest point in a composition? One source I have says the top
right is because flow moves left to right, specifically bottom left to top
right and that you should put a stopper (e.g. burning in) at the top right
corner of a photo. Hirsch says it is the top left but gives no reason. I
know there is a mathematical reason here for one or the other but it is
eluding me. I know I know, don't tell me to throw out all compositional
rules of photography...heck, I gotta give a lecture on it in two weeks so I
want to be 'in the know' before I go with my gut and say the top right and
the students say, "But the book says..."
Chris Anderson