FRAMING
Most of us use ‘frames’ to display our images when we hang them on walls for viewing – however ‘framing’ can be used within the composition of a shot to help you highlight your main point of interest in the image and and/or to put it in context to give the image ‘depth’
A frame serves numerous purposes:
1. It gives the image depth and helps to give the perception to viewers of it that they’re looking at something that is more than 2 dimensions.
Example:
2. Use correctly, framing can draw the eye of the viewer of an interest to a particular part of the scene.
3. Framing can bring a sense of containment to an image. This won’t work with every shot – but if you’re after a more ordered or formal feel it can be useful.
4. Framing can add context to a shot. The photo of the women in the shot below without the wooden frame would tell you less than the shot you see with the rustic looking wooden frame around them.
* Frames can take many forms – from an overhanging tree, a window, a bridge, arch or even part of another person etc. When using this technique – look for a frame that has a similar shape to the main subject that you’re framing.
** Frames can also be in the foreground or background of images (although more often than not they’re in the foreground).
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