Candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination Willard 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. The former Massachusetts Governor comes to the Palmetto State fresh off a primary win in New Hampshire.
Mitt Romney | ©2012 David Allio for Corbis
One of the great challenges of working on the campaign trail is finding an advantageous angle for presenting the size of an audience. There is much more involved than just bolting on a wide angle lens and releasing the shutter.
In general, composing a crowd follows the same rules as composing a landscape. Using the Rule of Thirds creates a much more interesting composition than simply targeting the candidate in the center of the frame. 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. Then, the candidate breaks the top one-third line and sets the left one-third.
For this exposure, a Nikon D3 camera was fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm 1:2.8G ED lens set to 52mm. The manual exposure settings included an aperture of f/4, shutter speed of 1/320th of a second, at 3200 ISO.
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