<P> In photography , headroom or head room is a concept of aesthetic composition that addresses the relative vertical position of the subject within the frame of the image . Headroom refers specifically to the distance between the top of the subject 's head and the top of the frame , but the term is sometimes used instead of lead room , nose room or ' looking room ' to include the sense of space on both sides of the image . The amount of headroom that is considered aesthetically pleasing is a dynamic quantity ; it changes relative to how much of the frame is filled by the subject . </P>
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aesthetic composition that addresses the relative vertical position of the subject within the frame of the image