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1. The first was the shot that you took
2. The second what the camera suggested as an “improvement” in
composition. (What it’s really doing is identifying the subject and
cropping the image according to (what looks suspiciously like) the rule
of thirds (Section A.10)). Along the way, it crops off the pixels it
doesn’t want, up-sizing the cropped image back up to 24 megapixels
before it saves.
In experimenting with this, I was often surprised by the “framing” the
camera chose, cropping in close on faces, or changing the format from
landscape to portrait (or the other way round).
You probably guessed by now that I don’t care much for this feature. I’m
not much for throwing pixels away in the camera when I can crop it later in
my computer. Besides, I expect that if you can remember how to turn on
this feature in your camera’s menu, then you can probably remember the
“rule of thirds” composition rule that Auto Object Framing applies, and
frame your picture to your own liking. 

Figure 5-75: Auto Object Framing. If it recognizes a face, the image will be
cropped so the face appears according to the rule of thirds. The feature has been
expanded from earlier implementations to behave the same way for ANY object.