Fibonacci's ratio vs the rule of thirds

Lifehacker just piqued my interest with an article on the digital photography school about the Fibonacci ratio, also known as the Golden Mean, Phi or Divine Proportion, which provides an alternative to the rule of thirds for composing photographs. I’ve certainly been feeling an element of fatigue with my own landscape images always using the rule of thirds - so this got me looking.

“When you take the sweet spot of the Fibonnaci Ratio and recreate it four times into a grid, you get what looks to be a rule of thirds grid. However, upon closer inspection you will see that this grid is not an exact splitting of the frame into three pieces. Instead of a 3 piece grid that goes 1+1+1=frame, you get a grid that goes 1+.618+1=frame.”

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