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Golden Ratio: Improve your photos composition

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Mathematics plays an important role in every field of applications. It is the most fundamental way of how our universe works, then whether it is physics, chemistry or more of applied sciences and even in the field of aesthetics, architecture etc. Photography is no different from it. There are many calculations involved in just a click. Professional photographers know their numbers and formulas to get picture right, though it seems more like a good location, props, actors, themes, equipment, lighting, backgrounds etc. makes good image, but everything boils down to numbers in the end. And today we are going to talk about one such number which is the base of, most popular images right from the famous Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, 'Vitruvian Man’, Last Supper to today's photos. This number is also used in defining the relation between seemingly abstract term like beauty and mathematics. The number is 1.6180339887498948420... or more popularly known as the g...