- In photography, headroom or head room is a concept of aesthetic composition that addresses the relative vertical position of the subject within the frame of the image.
- Headroom refers specifically to the distance between the top of the subject's head and the top of the frame
- The amount of headroom that is considered aesthetically pleasing is a dynamic quantity; it changes relative to how much of the frame is filled by the subject.
HEADROOM RULES: - One rule of thumb (based on rule-of-thirds) suggests that the subject's eyes, as a center of interest, are ideally positioned one-third of the way down from the top of the frame.
- Headroom changes as the camera zooms in or out, and the camera must simultaneously tilt up or down to keep the center of interest approximately one-third of the way down from the top of the frame.
- The closer the subject, the less headroom needed.
- In extreme close-ups, the top of the head is out of the frame, but the concept of headroom still applies via the rule of thirds.
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