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Centering the subject in the photo
randysgrandma:
is it ever ok to center the subject? If so, explain when it will work.
randysgrandma
Dreamframer:
It is OK only if you have definite reason to do that. For example, if you want to force a viewer to look only in a center of a photograph. This kind of composition is called "Bull's-eye". You can use it in some specific cases...for example when you want to take a shot of a dartboard... or similar
alias:
It often works particularly well with square format images.
It is also logical for images which are designed to create an impression of objectivity. For example images designed to look like evidence or which are designed to have a sort of snapshot aesthetic.
The centre of the frame is the natural unpretentious place for the subject to be. It is the place where people put the subject before they become infected by photo club ideas of composition - those rules which ultimately sometimes have to be unlearned.
In the end you have to rise above there being any rules and agree that a photo should look how you design it to look.
goldenangel:
I can work if you want to emphasize the symmetry of the subject or the surrounding of the subject.
rimglow:
Works 100% of the time for isolations.
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