How to Emphasize Your Subject Using Framing Techniques

Another digital photo tip to help you capture better images is by using a framing technique. Framing is a nice change of pace if it's something you don't do often. If you look before you shoot, you can find interesting ways to frame your subject. They are all around you. Just be careful not to let your frame overpower the subject. For an extra dramatic effect, try to combine framing with another technique to emphasize your subject.

Basically anything that you can use as a dominant foreground can serve as a frame. A few things you can consider when you're evaluating your surroundings might include tree boughs, a view through a fence or even a field of flowers. Where your subject does not dominate due to it's relative size or distance, framing is one technique you can use to focus attention. Your subject will appear more forceful and dramatic with the frame around them.

Framing can be accomplished in many ways. A wooden fence in the foreground of a landscape image serves as a frame along the bottom. It helps to establish near and far thus allowing the viewer to estimate distances. You shouldn't consider framing as being only on the top or sides of the subject.

Here's one of Ansel Adam's little known landscape photography tips. Look at some of his images. While not 'framing' as typically thought of, the delicate branches say you are here and that is the subject there beyond The use of leaves and branches of plantings in the foreground to create the sense of scale between the viewer and the subject beyond. You will notice other good examples when you know what to look for.

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