Compositional Trick #6 Framing

Framing is a good way to help focus on the emphasis in your photo. The toughest thing to do when it comes to framing is to make sure your emphasis doesn’t seem like its part of the frame. You want your viewer to look through the frame to the emphasis instead of sharing the focus of the frame and the emphasis. My pictures are two good examples of good and not so good framing photos. Notice in the first photo how you have to look through the tree branches to get to the emphasis and in the second one the emphasis (the boy) is a part of the frame. I could have been at a better angle to make it seem as though you are looking through the weight bench bars and not at them to see the emphasis.