Guidelines for Advanced Composition and Image Design
Clean Lower Edge on Bird-Scapes
Text and images copyright Arthur Morris, all rights reserved

When designing bird-scapes that feature large flocks of birds, a clean lower edge always serves well as a compositional anchor. Strive to point the lens down far enough so that a birdless strip of water, grass, shoreline, mountaintop or hilltop occupies the portion of the frame below the lowest bird or birds in the flock, that is, the area at the bottom of the frame. This applies when working in either horizontal or vertical format. The height of this clean lower edge will usually range from one-tenth to one-fourth or one-third of the height of the vertical frame-edge.

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