Headroom and looking room

Kijkrichting · Composition

Space above the head and in the direction the subject is looking.

Leave a little space above the head (not too much - it feels lost). Give the subject's gaze room: if someone looks right, leave more space on the right. Otherwise it feels claustrophobic. The same applies to movement: someone walking right gets space on the right.

Tools that help with this:

Depth of Field Calculator

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