That article about the golden ratio lost me with that horribly cropped image. It ignores all the things that actually matter when composing and cropping a shot,

That article about the golden ratio lost me with that horribly cropped image. It ignores all the things that actually matter when composing and cropping a shot, and gives some absurd advice that will actively lead people astray. The end result cuts off valuable content in favor of blurry background nonsense, leaving a random pencil end sticking up out of nowhere and a massively distracting board that is uncomfortably lined up with an outer edge. Learning some basic compositional techniques would be far more helpful both for the author and its readers.