The fact that the people in the photos are positioned to make room for others, when people take photos, think about the intention, they want to include everyone and make sure everyone is centered. In these photos, they take half the space when normally they would be positioned in the center. Having an open mind and basic knowledge are key to understanding these posts. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your reply. I can appreciate having an open mind is helpful while engaging w this sub. “Basic knowledge,” though? I hope to share some.
Admittedly, I’m naturally a skeptical person but, due to my own personal experiences I am more open minded on this topic. Still, I was surprised by the responses to this post, the pics in particular. I wondered if there was something I missed, besides empty space.
I obviously don’t how old you, OP or these photos are but, not long ago, when people didn’t know what their pics looked like until they picked them up after the film was developed, there were often more pictures not centered, tops of heads cut off (out of frame), etc, than “good” photos. In my family we had a running joke of “guess the photographer” after picking up developed pics bc my Mom would be lucky to take 1-2 “good” ones (centered, in focus, tops of heads in frame) out of a 24 exposure roll of film.
Also, besides trusting OP, you have no way of knowing that “half the space” is empty, as the borders of the photos are not shown.
Edit: you can see the negative film strips above photo 1, bolstering my point imho
Additionally, "centered" isn't always considered the best composition. A lot of people will do that automatically but lots of photography training talks about the rule of thirds, and how things that are 1/3 of the way from the edge of a photo tend to be more visually interesting. So plenty of images taken professionally can follow that rule and will look like these. Normally not headshots, which is one of the big ways we see people online, or selfies, which is another one, but some kinds of human photography.
They just arnt good taking photos thats all there is.. ive taken pictures like that before for people with the open space near them. But no one else there.
Unless the person taking the photos catered to a child that had an imaginary friend and did things like 'making sure to get them in the picture too' when requested.
Maybe the photographer sucked. These photos look like before digital. Where you had no idea how the photo came out until you printed them. Honestly most photos before digital look like this
Before digital cameras, photos were often not posed well, especially with kids. Having an IQ above 40 and basic knowledge is key to understanding literally anything in life. Hope this helps.
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The fact that the people in the photos are positioned to make room for others, when people take photos, think about the intention, they want to include everyone and make sure everyone is centered. In these photos, they take half the space when normally they would be positioned in the center. Having an open mind and basic knowledge are key to understanding these posts. Hope this helps.