Compositional Trick #3 Macro

Macro shows the main emphasis you are trying to grasp while at the same time blurs everything else out. Macro also brings out the texture of your emphasis you usually don't see at all. It's also used to make smaller emphasis appear larger than the actual size of the emphasis.

Compositional Trick #2 Leading Lines

What we as photographers call Leading lines are the lines that take us into the picture and to our emphasis. They show us all around the picture inside and out. The reason to use them is very simple they lead you in and grasp your attention. The lines take you through the picture with great simplicity.

Compositional Trick #1 Rule of Thrids

The rule of thirds is showing your emphasis somewhere else other than the middle of the picture. It's a tic-tac-toe grid that shows us were we can find a good spot to put our emphasis. The reason why I used it here was to show the sequence of the birds while one is flying away in the top left and the other looking at me right in the middle.