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Charles Jourdan campaign

Guy Bourdin

Spring, 1979

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Like many, Guy Bourdin loves a good bottom. But rather than putting this on slap bang in the middle of the frame, here he’s added to the eccentricity of the shot by positioning the subject off-centre. Even so, the image is still nicely balanced, or, to put it  another way, it doesn’t look “wrong”.

像很多人一样，盖. 柏丁也喜欢美美的大屁股。（这里是一语双关，意指画面底端，也指画面中美人的屁股。）但与其把这抹性感鲁莽的放置在画面的中央，他做出了更大胆反常的试验，那就是令主题偏离了中心。尽管如此，这张照片还是有着漂亮的平衡感，或者换句话说，它看起来并无任何不妥。

That’s because Bourdin has used the ‘rule of thirds’. This means splitting your frame into three sections - either horizontally or vertically - and positioning your focal point in line with this imaginary grid.

那是因为柏丁运用了“三分构图法”。也就是说，将你的画面分割成三部分，无论是横着分还是竖着分都可以，然后将你所要突出的焦点放置在想象中的虚构网格线上。

If you don’t want to centre your subject, the rule of thirds helps maintain balance.

如果你不想把主题放在正中心，那么运用三分构图法将帮助你维持画面的平衡。

Many photographers will spit at the mere sight of the rule of thirds because it can feel to calculated. That said, they’re all secretly at it. Just use it as a rough guideline and be careful not to position your subject too near the edge of the frame, or only slightly off-centre, as this can look a little clumsy.

很多摄影师其实会对单纯的使用三分构图法持以藐视态度，因为那将会让画面看起来太像是人为计算出来的。也就是说，他们都是悄悄地使用一下下（意为看似画面没有用三分构图法，但其实也有根据这个准则来保持一个大概的平衡）。所以你最好只是大概想象一下，做一个参考，而且要当心不要把主题放在太靠近画面边缘或者只是轻微的偏离中心，那就看来笨拙的要命了~

• 《Read This Book If You Want To Take Great Photographs.》

• 英文原版书作者：Henry Carroll

• 文字编译及素材搜集：Amber 梁馨心

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