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Part I ✦ Understanding Digital Wedding Photography

Figure 5-6: Make sure to leave room on your group shots so they can easily be

cropped to the dimension of an 8x10 frame. Although this image seems to have a lot

of empty space on the sides, it would just barely fit in an 8x10 frame.

Figure 5-7: When cropping people, you should avoid cutting through the joints.

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Chapter 5 ✦ Composing Your Art

Shooting a Bull’s-Eye

Most people know the word bull’s-eye as a shooting term. In photography, bull’s-eye is a composition

term meaning that you placed the subject right in the very center of the image. For wedding photogra-

phy, this is usually a bad quality, because the subject of most of our images is a person — and specifi-

cally, the eyes of that person. If you place the eyes in the middle of the image, as in Figure 5-8, you tend

to have a lot of wasted space above the head, and not enough room down lower to show what was really

going on in the scene. If you accidentally shoot a bull’s-eye image, you can often improve it with some

cropping; however, it is better to make the best use of your image space. Of course, there will be many

exceptions where you may intentionally want to place the subject in the center. In Figure 5-9, the domed

tops of a resort ...