Lesson 3ª

 

 

 

   

Frame

The frame is what we decided to include in the picture. The portion of a scene that the photographer decides to register with your camera. The frame is limited by 4 sides while the human eye observes the entire space.

If we put a group of people at the same landscape, all photos will be different. Why? Because each of these people will have a different frame. Some take out the entire landscape, another take out only part of that landscape, another approach might make the flowers in the landscape,. You understand that I speak. Each person will draw attention to something different and that is what they will photograph. In addition, each will use a different lens: be wide angle, normal or telephoto, and zoom will agree to whatever they want to achieve. Framing is, therefore, completely personal.

The first thing you have to do is decide what is most important in the scene I want to show. We have to identify or recognize the focus. What catches my attention in that scene? What I see makes me want to stop and shoot that scene? : Is it a person? A situation? Is the movement of some element? Are the colors? Are the forms?

The focus is not necessarily what is in the center of the image, and the largest object in the image. It's just what we are interested in showing.

Only when we realize that is what we want to show, we will be able to think and decide how we want to show it. So, as we want or we should frame it: What we'll include a photo and we will leave out? They must know that what is excluded in the picture is as important as what is included, oddly enough. The include or exclude an item in the photo may be the difference between a good and one outstanding photo.