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Digital Photography - Troubleshooting

Viewfinder Framing Gotchas

SUMMARY: Why you can't 100% rely on your digital camera's viewfinder or LCD screen.

When composing your shots using your digital camera's viewfinder or LCD screen, be careful when framing your subject if it touches one of the edges of your visible frame. You may want to zoom out or step back a step or two so that your subject does not fill the entire frame. Reasons:

1) When you press down on the shutter, the camera (unless it is secured by a tripod or other device) may shake, causing part of your subject that touched the edge of the frame to be cut out of the final picture.

2) Even with an LCD viewfinder, some digital cameras may take photos that don't 100% look like the picture in the viewfinder. Some may cut out a small area around the edge of the viewfinder, causing your resulting photo to have part of its subject cropped out.

It's better to leave a little extra room around the edges and crop the image later in post-processing, than to get back from a photo shoot and realize part of your subject is missing from the resulting photograph.

 

 
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