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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.
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