This month's article marks the one-year anniversary of our Photography Tips series. We hope that our articles have been of some assistance to your bird photography as we have certainly enjoyed writing them. On this occasion we begin a series of articles dealing with bird photography and composition.
Composition is the way the elements that make up a picture are arranged.
When photographing birds it can be very difficult to create an interesting composition as the technical challenge of just getting the bird focused and in the frame can be difficult. The ROT is a very common technique that is used in photography. The ROT is found by mentally dividing up the frame into three equal segments using horizontal and vertical lines. By placing the bird on an intersection point of the horizontal and vertical lines, you will have a more interesting composition. Observe the following photographs where we have superimposed the ROT lines.