Framing

 

 

"Frames exist throughout the environment”

In every picture we take, there will be somehow some sort of frames formed to create composition and structure. Through these pictures, I want to mention about frame inside frames technique, which you find other frames in the photo. Camera "create not only the outer frame of the shot, but to discover inner frames as well" (Lupton and Phillip, 103). Within the four-sided frame of the photograph, another frame enhances the composition and depth. It could be an actual frame like a window frame. Doors can make interesting frames. And here we have a mirror frame in the last picture. Even a picture frame can fit in a frame within a frame photography. Once you bound elements that appear in your composition with a second frame, you immediately influence how these elements relate to each other. 

"Different densities of texture suggest hierarchies of contrasting typefaces" (Lupton and Phillip, 104). We can find active framing through the structure of the picture, beginning at the frame edge and works inward that imposes meanings on the scene. For example, in the first two photos, the small polaroid photos creates a bigger frame, or active framing,  which draw viewer’s attention to the small polaroid photos. In passive framing, the composition seems to start in the middle and work outward to the frame edge which emphasizes the primary subject matter in the frame and not the subjective selection of the photographer.