Rule of Thirds One of the best-known and most effective
compositional techniques is the famous Rule of Thirds. I've
covered this idea in some depth in a previous tutorial but it is
especially relevant to landscape photography. Rather than having
the subject in the centre of the frame try to position the
elements of your shot so that horizontal lines such as,
obviously, the horizon, and vertical elements such as trees,
divide the frame into thirds, like a noughts-and-crosses (tick-
tack-toe for our American readers) grid. Frame the shot so that
major elements of your picture fall on these grid lines, and
particularly where the grid lines intersect. Take another look
at the simple shot on the first page, of the house in the wheat
field with the sea in the background. In this image, the horizon
divides the frame along the upper third line, while the house is
positioned close to where this line intersects the right third
line. There is some shaded detail in the wheat field close to
where the bottom third line inte