This challenge is to encourage you to think about framing your subject. This can be a physical frame or a contextual contrast. Great photographers to take inspiration from are Saul Leiter and Alex Webb. Another more traditional way is to think about framing as trying to shoot through something. Think about a foreground framing your subject. Here is a video by Rupert Vandervell on this subject. Alex Kilbee has good videos on Saul Leiter an Alex Webb.
Smoky Sunset taken with my A71 cell phone
Framing the “eerie” sun in smoky Calgary
f1.8 1/700sec iso32
photoshop tweaked levels, exposure, contrast
Nicely framed, love the colours.
Thanks Henri,
Beautiful lighting for this “Frame the Subject” image, on this 8:30 am walk in Baker Park. Taken with my Fuji XP140 pocket camera.
Framing a bench under a tree.
this yellow rumped warbler is framed by the branches , ISO 400 400mm 1/400 f6.3
The image has been cropped quite a bit
not sure if this qualifies for framing , I like the abstract design
ISO 400 1/800 f6.3 80mm
This is a Savannah Sparrow sitting in a fence at the 68th Street ponds across from Elliston on 17th Ave. It was a quite morning and we were just looking at each other. Shot in AP, FL 400mm, S 1/1000, ISO 320, cropped and sharpened slightly.
Great example of framing Karen.
Sleeping Great Horned Owl framed by tree branches taken at Fish Creek Park. Focal Length 400, F 6.3, S 1/400, ISO 320, Auto WB. Cropped.
This pigeon in Dubrovnik can fly, but can’t jump.
1/800 sec @ f/3.5, ISO 200
Edited in Lightroom and Nix Sharpener Output
Fall is upon us and, once again, I am back to Boomer Artist. Here is a photo I took while in the NWT in early September. This little guy, nestled in the red bearberry ground cover, is one of many different types of mushrooms that happily grow on the tundra. The bright red provides a natural frame for the mushroom which popped up in its midst.
I had my 24-70 mm lens on my camera so I zoomed to 70 to take the shot. Because I had my camera switched to APSC, I was able to get a zoom of 105 mm to bring me in closer.
F3.5 and 1/500 SS and handheld.
I would appreciate feedback on something…….LR now has HDR editing (high dynamic range) which is available for newer computers (ex. Apple computers with the M chip can show the higher stops in HDR). I am trying to use it but I wonder what it looks like for those who have older computers that do not have screens that are able to display the extra stops of exposure. My question is this……if you have an older computer, does the mushroom look blown out in the highlights? Conversely, does it look dull? Thanks for the insight. (I have an older secondary monitor and the mushroom looks blown out on it but not on my iMac). Thanks for your comments.
I don’t see any blown out hilites either on my Mac or external monitor.
Thanks Paul……that is helpful to know. Now to understand why the mushroom is blown out on my external monitor which cannot display HDR.
There are a few small areas in the image where the blacks are blown out, but they don’t matter as much as the whites.
This is a shot from Studio Bell – no strong subject framed but I love the framing itself and the mysteries of the architecture in the shadows. Shot at ISO 3600, 24mm, f/4.0 at1/200 sec.
Beautiful composition
Early morning sunrise shot of a wood duck backlit by bright reflections off the water – darkened significantly in LRc to create a soft silhouette. Shot at ISO 200, 600mm, f/7.1 at 1/1000 sec.
This is a perfect picture! Stunning framing, composition and such a beautiful golden colour. Wow!
I was framing the flowers in Riley Park between two trees when a kid wearing a pink shirt rode by on his bike so I quickly took the shot. He’s also framed between two of the canna lilies, which was pure luck. The man on the bench wearing another flower coloured shirt was a bonus.
ISO 400, 163 mm, f/7.1, 1/400 s
You must have taken Saul Leiter’s examples to heart. Really like the look of the heavy tree trunks framing the park visitors and the flower bed.
Was down in Weaselhead this weekend. A lonely bench between two trees overlooking the valley. There was a gentleman having a nap but he moved on just as I took the picture. Taken at f/9, 1/320 sec, ISO 200
Call this Framed in Black. Pink flowers deep in the shade. Taken at f/6.2, 1/85 sec, ISO 200
Tiny flower framed by two branches. Taken with 50-230 lens at f6/2, 1/85 second, ISO 200
We went for lunch in Priddis and on the way home via Okotoks came across the Big Rock, which I hadn’t seen in about four decades. I’d forgotten my camera, so used my phone to frame the rock in the railings of the elaborate zig zag wheelchair ramp. I remember people climbing it but now the signs say no climbing.
Really interesting framing. I did not know the okotoks big rock had crowd control barriers.
Tree reflected in a lake. Taken from the Silver Springs Ridge early morning.
Number 1 is called framing fun.
between a rock and another rock, black and white in NIK HDR
Many of you might be familiar with PointNoPoint, a property with cabins on the west coast of Vancouver Island. One of their trails has a few bridges painted bight red, here framed by grey cloudy skies, trees, rocks and water. The bright colour immediately draws your eye into the photograph, and then to the tiny waving figure on the left. Sony RX10, 24mm, f8, 1/320sec, ISO 400, edited primarily in Lightroom Classic.
shot at f13@1/250, iso 160. Mount Fuji framed by trees and temple. post processing to darken sky and foreground, lighten Mt Fuji.