Chapter 4: Taming the Frame
In This Chapter
Locking onto framing
Elevating your vantage point
Using symmetry
Looking at different angles
When photographers say frame, they can mean several things. As a verb, it means to point your camera at the scene and compose the shot. As a noun, frame can refer to your photograph. It can also mean your view through the viewfinder or on your LCD monitor — your windows to the world.
In this chapter, framing means lining up in your viewfinder or on your LCD monitor the elements that you’re photographing. I sometimes use the word composing to mean the same thing. Framing is different from design, where you choose what elements will go in the photo. (Book IV, Chapter 3 examines design.) Framing comes after that. After you’ve settled on the elements, framing means finding the look that will create the best photo.
I include certain photos in this chapter to talk about how those elements are positioned and arranged. I won’t show you a photo with bad design as an example of good framing, and I won’t show you a poorly framed photo as an example of good ...
