Composition is an essential part of photography. It is, for me, the most artistic dimension of a snapshot, a bit like painting. This week’s challenge is about composition and framing.
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photo and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. from portraits to macro photography, landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. Topics will be offered on Saturday, so you have the entire weekend to work. You will have one week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. Friday or Saturday will I update the article with the photo that captivated me the most and will I propose a new topic, and so on?
- If each photograph in itself constitutes its own frame (the one that marks the edges of the photo).
- The natural framing.
- Also called natural framing.
- Is to ensure that the photo contains within it a frame composed of natural elements.
- Or at least fewer elements foreign to the photographer.
- And that act as a frame that surrounds the main subject or landscape that we were photographing.
You can get a natural framing by photographing the interior of a cave, taking advantage of the door in the wall of a fortress, looking for a suitable angle behind the branches of a tree, or even taking advantage of the frame. ‘a beautiful window.
This week I challenge you to practice this composition technique in a photograph and share it with us.
As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge, upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the Photographer’s Blog: In the photo description, please mention the keyword? Frame Challenge? Followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
Thank you for your participation
The purpose of the “updates” is none other than to accompany each challenge article with a representative sample of what blog readers have photographed and downloaded throughout the week. We loved this week’s work, have you shown that anything can be used as a frame, even a camera?
This week my vote goes to Ali’s Nostalgia. A photo with a magnificent execution of the natural framing technique and never better. The composition of the photograph is very correct from my point of view. A central and warm point that inevitably attracts the attention of the viewer, surrounded first by a halo of light that allows to focus attention in the center. The trunks, in addition to recreating this natural (extremely natural) framing, act as a widowed effect. When you look at the photograph, your eyes instinctively move away from the chaos, collapse and darkness that surround the edges of the photograph, and move reluctantly toward the center of the photograph, towards what you have to observe.
A magnificent photo. Congratulations, Ali.