Many times, when you look at some photos, you won't know where the main body is and the focus is not prominent, which means that the main body of your work is not prominent enough. In addition to the well-known rule of thirds and symmetric composition, we can also useFrame composition method, using a frame to frame the subject, allows the audience's eyes to focus on the subject in the frame.
「Frame compositionIt is to use all kinds of things that can form a frame as the foreground or background of the photo, more specifically, as the distinguishing object of the subject in the photo. There are many scenes in our daily life that can be used to create frame composition.
1/.
Protruding body
Frame composition can make our subject more prominent in the photo, guide the viewer's attention, and make the audience's attention focus on the subject in the frame.
Like some characteristic ancient buildings, there will be many hollow doors and windows and long corridors, which are natural frame elements. Before shooting, we choose a distinctive and prominent object in the scene as the main body of the picture, such as a tree or a building, and then use the surrounding frame to frame the shooting theme, which plays a role in guiding the line of sight and highlighting the main body.
Before shooting, be sure to think about whether this scene is worth shooting, instead of forcibly framing some scenes for the sake of frame composition. At the same time, pay attention to the vertical, horizontal and horizontal borders, so that the visual effect will look more comfortable.
@ Lu Lianyu | iPhone 7 Plus
If there is no physical framework available on site, it can also be cleverUse the trees around the perimeter of the building as a framing foreground.
Like this photo, the ultra-wide-angle lens of the mobile phone is used to shoot upward. Due to the edge distortion of the ultra-wide-angle, the trees that were originally upright show the effect of converging towards the center, forming a natural frame.
Similarly, when shooting some large sculptures and buildings in the distance, you can use the nearby green plants as the frame foreground, which can not only add layers to the photos, but also lead your eyes to the main body of the picture.
We can also observe from different angles, observe the local edge lines of some objects, and also get a frame to frame the subject by changing the shooting angle.
2/.
Peeping feeling
The frame composition will form a sense of depth, make the picture more three-dimensional and intuitive, have more visual impact, and also make the subject echo the environment. Use visual occlusion to create holes through door cracks/walls "Voyeurism"Feeling, enhance the appeal of the picture.
In addition to larger frames like doors and windows, we can also use small gaps between walls or leaves and meshes as frames. This frame-like composition will bring a strong sense of peeping to the audience.
For example, look for small gaps in the wall as the foreground, guide the audience's visual focus, and make the whole picture have a "peeping feeling".
This sense of peeping makes the audience have a bystander's mentality, observe the behavior of the characters in the picture and become a spectator.
3/.
Layered sense
Using a good frame composition can add a sense of layering to the picture, making the picture from flat to three-dimensional and from plain to rich. Good frame composition can, drawing the viewer's eye from the front to the rear, throughout the whole picture.
For example, taking the spiral staircase as the foreground of the frame, looking from the bottom of the building, the stair guardrail will form an obvious spiral effect, leading people's eyes from near to far, all the way to the center of the picture, and the picture will also produce a rotating dynamic effect.
We can stillUtilize the mapping function of the mirrorLet the virtual scene and the real scene appear in one picture at the same time, which can not only enrich the layering of the picture, but also make the photo full of story.
Mirrors of different shapes themselves can also be used as a picture frame to help compose the picture, such as the interior rearview mirror with soldiers reflected below, bringing a "picture-in-picture" effect.
4/.
Interesting
The frame doesn't exist randomly, it must echo other objects in the picture. Making good use of the foreground of the frame can add a specific atmosphere to the photo and make it look more story-telling, such as this overlapping "small waist".
And the photo below, with two pillars printed with cartoon animals as the foreground, a father and daughter in the center of the picture, and the expressions of the cartoon characters seem to be plotting to surprise the father and daughter.
There is also this picture of two horses in tandem, near big and far small, squatting down and using the horse in front as the frame foreground to trap the other horse. At the same time, this work also has a vivid name "Immediately". Does it look instantly clear at a glance?
Finally, frame composition is only one of the composition methods, so don't be limited by it. The criterion for judging good photographic works is by no means manifested in form. The content expressed by photos is what hits people's hearts directly, and the form is just a bonus. Photography never sets limits!
