Going Beyond The Rule of Thirds In Bird Photography

[@michaeljamesperry741]

I have watched a good dozen or so of your videos in recent days. This has been my favourite thus far. The tips are clearly well thought out, well explained, and the pace moves quickly to the next tip. You held my interest from beginning to end.

[@thisisme1999]

Some wonderful photographic efforts to illustrate your points. What I do appreciate was that it made rethink things that I was starting to take for granted.

[@mith.8343]

Fantastic video. I love all the examples of your beautiful pictures to show what you are talking about. Can't wait to get out there and have these tips in the back of my mind. Thank you Tim.

[@Noealz]

This is great man - I mean I don't take bird photos but it's nice to see these more in depth videos rather than just a rule or two

[@idletimeproductions4956]

Great information. I'm new to bird photography and I'm struggling to manage the technical elements; i.e. shutter speed to stop action and ISO to limit noise. Once I accomplish this, I'll move to the artistic elements.

[@stuartschaffner9744]

I have a few comments. First and foremost, this video is one of the best I have ever seen on this subject. It’s concise, clear, and packed full of useful ideas. One small quibble: ditch the tinkly elevator music in the background! I would suggest that if you feel that removing distracting background elements is OK then you should also consider blurring or otherwise altering parts of the background. I don’t buy the argument that it’s OK to use a $12,000 lens to blur the background but somehow “cheating” to blur it in post. It takes patience and care to make the masks, but there are many tutorials on the subject. The sharper you can get the bird’s outline the easier it is to make and use the masks.

[@tommyandersson7093]

Great videos Tim, discovered your channel just a couple of days ago.. subscribed and looking forward for more.. :)

[@345_Slowpar]

this is awsome dude! keep up the good work!

[@rogermullins7877]

Another interesting video Tim. I am familiar with most of what you discussed but was really interested in the section relating to the zonal areas such as 70% of viewers look firstly at the top left etc.

[@GodwitMediaLLC]

Thanks Roger

[@rong9801]

Do you have a link to the designmodo article? Thanks Ron

[@mikeholt7087]

Just ordered your book.

[@danielx555]

I work in psychology and I am generally very skeptical about statements describing human behavior. Personally, I believe that one of the reasons why the so-called rule of thirds works is because we've been trained to expect it. It's similar to how we are trained to look for elements of genre fiction or trained to expect certain structures in music. I think that there are no rules for composition but there are compositions that are more pleasing, and when we go in afterward to try to figure out why, we come up with ideas and rules but the human behavior itself (whether or not we like a photo) is not guided by rules and cannot be described 100% by rules. Yeah, I know that's a lot of words, but I paid a lot for that psychology degree lol