Compositional Trick #1 Rule of Thirds

The Rule of Thirds is one of the many compositional tricks in digital photography. It is a feature on a camera that looks like a tic tac toe grid. The reason it looks like a tic tac toe grid is because the display screen on your camera is broken up both vertically and horizontally. You use this feature to help you place your object of emphasis on one of the areas where the lines of the grid cross. It helps make your photograph more interesting, so all your objects of emphasis are not dead center in the middle of your photograph.