22. USE THE VISUAL SPACE
COMPOSITION IS ALL about how the space within the photographic frame is used. Although being contained by this barrier might feel constricting, limitations breed creativity. There’s a lot of potential for using that space, but it helps to know how to approach the frame with essential foundational compositional principles.
When it comes to portraits, no one has written a definitive rulebook, particularly when it comes to how much of our subjects we include in our frame. However, we have a general understanding of how to frame our subjects in terms of the viewer’s distance from them. Portrait photographers generally have ...
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