Basic Photography Composition | Framing Your Shots
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Frame Within The Frame | Istana Alam Shah | Klang Selangor
In photography framing is the technique to bring focus to the subject, by properly framing our subject, it helps to draw viewers eyes to the subject. Anything can be use as a frame as long as it help to focus or direct the viewers eyes to the main subject. Here in this photograph I use the platform or the stage and the yellow decoration clothes up there to frame my main subject, actually my “real main subject” here is The King of Malaysia, but the King has not arrive just yet, so in this particular photograph, my main subject here is the royal guard-of-honour consisting of 107 officers and men from the first battalion of the Royal Malay Regiment, Sungai Besi Camp headed by Major Ahmad Muzaimi Mohd Ali.
Whenever you go out shooting, whether it is for fun or your official job, try to find something that can be used to frame your subject, the shape of the frame does not have to be rounded or in a perfect shape, it can be any shape as long the frame manage to draw our eyes towards the subject. Among the most favorite subject that photographers use to frame their subject is the windows, arches or doorways.
You can use framing technique for landscape, architecture or a portrait shot. Framing is a visual language where we tell the viewers where to look at, what is the subject matters here. Sometimes photographers use vignetting technique to frame the subject by making the edge of the pictures darker in photoshop but if you can use natural element in the scene to frame your subject, the better.
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