{"id":134,"date":"2012-01-11T23:16:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T07:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2014-12-27T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T03:11:59","slug":"composing-a-crowd-columbia-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2012\/01\/11\/composing-a-crowd-columbia-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Composing a Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination\u00a0Willard Mitt Romney speaks during a town hall meeting at The Hall at Senate’s End in Columbia in advance of the South Carolina GOP Primary.\u00a0 The former Massachusetts Governor comes to the Palmetto State fresh off a primary win in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

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Mitt Romney | \u00a92012 David Allio for Corbis<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the great challenges of working on the campaign trail is finding an advantageous angle for presenting the size of an audience.\u00a0 There is much more involved than just bolting on a wide angle lens and releasing the shutter.<\/p>\n

In general, composing a crowd follows the same rules as composing a landscape.\u00a0 Using the Rule of Thirds<\/em> creates a much more interesting composition than simply targeting the candidate in the center of the frame.\u00a0 In this photo, the horizon is along the line dividing the top one-third of the frame, allowing the audience to fill the bottom two-thirds of the frame.\u00a0 Then, the candidate breaks the top one-third line and sets the left one-third.<\/p>\n

For this exposure, a Nikon D3 camera was fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm 1:2.8G ED lens set to 52mm.\u00a0 The manual exposure settings included an aperture of f\/4, shutter speed of 1\/320th of a second, at 3200 ISO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Willard Mitt Romney The Hall at Senate’s End Columbia South Carolina photography by David Allio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78,10,37,36,7],"tags":[900,72],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columbia","category-tips-and-techniques","category-people-photogrpahy","category-politics","category-visual-art","tag-sc-south-carolina","tag-digital-photography-tips-and-techniques"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21yji-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}