A labour worker is waiting for someone on a hot day.
Two of the ever useful rules of composition, the Rule of Thirds and the Golden Mean, can apply to images in square format. However, factoring in the equal-distance diagonal lines and the shorter dimension of such an image, I have rather found it less effective in square images to accentuate the focal point or the subject by placing it at the intersections of the golden-ratio lines.
A mechanic is having a respite while clearing his arms with a bucket of water.
Instead, I prefer sticking to an adapted Rule of Thirds for such images. As in the original Rule of Thirds, I divide the scene in three equal parts and compose it in thirds either vertically or horizontally. Now that the scene is divided into three sections, I place the dominant subject matter or the focal point normally one third or two thirds up or down, or from the right or left side but mostly in the middle part of the image.
The point that composition also depends on the photographic theme and the intention of the photographers should not require making.
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