Fill the Frame With Your Subject for the Best Portraits
Many of us amateur photographers don’t bother perfecting the composition of a portrait while shooting, because we can simply crop the photo after the fact. But as photographer and educator Joe Edelman points out, if you don’t fill the frame with your subject, you’re just wasting precious pixels on your camera.
Instead, you should fill the frame with your subject as much as possible during shooting, not when publishing. In fact, as Joe explains, it boils down to two factors: you are either lazy or afraid (and in my case, both!). It’s just easier to focus the subject in the center of the frame so that you can edit it later. It also means that you are wasting the capabilities of the camera’s sensor and, in the long run, compromise image quality. You might not be able to crop it later if you fill the frame, and yes, you might even make a mistake that you can’t fix, but it’s better to take advantage of your camera’s capabilities than hope you can fix it in Photoshop.
The Most Important Composition Rule for Photographers | Joe Edelman