User:TriforceTony/Sandbox/Featured Image

Overview
Featured Images are pictures that the community votes to be visually striking or pleasant enough to be shared. Contributors may nominate Featured Images and discuss pictures nominated by others here. Additionally, past Featured Images are documented in an archive. Unlike Featured Articles, Featured Images do not necessarily need to follow any set criteria. However, there are useful tools that may help to determine which images have good composition or follow visual design techniques to make them stand out.

Helpful Tools
When capturing shots, try to consider every possible angle for the image. Different angles and perspectives can alter the mood of an image and can communicate extra information by composition alone. For example, a common way to communicate strength and weakness are to position subjects from low and high angles, respectively. Things shown on the horizon line with no differentiation can be used to convey neutrality.

This is only one way to make use of angles in relation to the horizon line, however. Not everything found above or below it will carry these connotations. The meanings derived from these tools may be tied to cultural understandings, or the intended meanings behind these tools may be misunderstood and misinterpreted. An image displaying the entirety of a structure may convey an unintentional sense of grandeur, and images that have strong angles may indirectly guide the eye away from the subject. The point of these tools is to help people intentionally find images that look good, but some shots may look good on their own merit without intentionally following any frameworks.

Rule of Thirds
The is a compositional framework that places a grid of four invisible lines onto an image which are intended to help guide the eye along an image by placing key objects throughout the image either on the lines or on their intersectional points. Though it is easy to follow and understand, the rules of thirds is criticized for oversimplifying the composition techniques that go into an image's presentation and can deter its users from placing objects in the center of the frame. The rule of thirds can be a powerful tool when used correctly, but it is often a product of other more effective frameworks and techniques rather than being the intended framework itself.

Baroque and Sinister Diagonals
The baroque angle is when the subject of a picture follows an invisible diagonal line originating from the bottom left to the top right of an image. This is an effective method for composition because:
 * objects in the foreground typically start near the bottom and rise through the image
 * Anglophone speakers typically begin reading left to right and are accustomed to following that direction with their eyes

The inverse of a baroque diagonal is a sinister diagonal, which runs from the bottom right to the top left.

Golden Triangle
are a development of baroque and sinister diagonals where two additional lines are drawn at 90° angles from the opposing corners.