Once you have decided whether you will freeze the action, blur the action, or blend the two styles you must determine the subject placement in your image. While compositional tools such as leading lines, the rule of thirds, and centering still apply to action photography - the main consideration in action photography is not stopping the motion with the frame. If you have an image of a runner and the runner is literally running into the frame of your image, the visual impact is to box in the runner and stop the motion. Your goal in action photography will be to place the subject so that the motion is given room to continue. Make sure the action is far enough away from the edge of the frame that it has room to create a visual sense of continuation. Now, there are exceptions to this rule. If the motion is a short burst motion, like the karate image included with this article, you can place the action focal point where it is near the frame so that the eye stops its motion there. By using this technique you can focus extra attention on the action focal point. Again, this only works well with short burst actions that have a logical point of focus. For the karate image example, the breaking the board is the action focal point, we don't care where the hand goes after that moment.