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"I've often noticed..." quoting Abbas Kiarostami
"... that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame" — source Le Cinéma World (see image below). There are implications in that quote...
Abbas Kiarostami (22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films. He attained critical acclaim for directing the "Koker trilogy" (1987–1994), "Close-Up" (1990), "The Wind Will Carry Us" (1999), and "Taste of Cherry" (1997). His films "Where Is the Friend's Home?", "Close-Up", and "The Wind Will Carry Us" were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll. "Close-Up" was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012. — Wikipedia
There are the technical aspects of photography, the pull of certain subject matter, and/or 'rules' that one picks up along the way... there are also hard wired elements, e.g. "During the Second World War, Goebbles [Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945] gave an order to all cameramen at the front: The German soldier always attacks from left to right" (link to a post from May 13, 2019).
In my thinking, to "frame a subject" is one of those hard wired elements that impact the viewer even if they don't acknowledge the photographer's intent.
The composition in itself is the basic "frame", but internal to that, lines and space can create a mood and/or set an atmosphere that enhances the viewing experience.
Any thoughts on framing and/or other "hard wired" elements that you have run across?
Thanks for looking,
Casey
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"I've often noticed..." quoting Abbas Kiarostami
"... that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame " — source Le Cinéma World (see image below). There are implications in that quote... Abbas Kiarostami (22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, ...
Agree Casey
The composition in itself is the basic "frame", but internal to that, lines and space can create a mood and/or set an atmosphere that enhances the viewing experience. Plus sometimes there is surprises "catch" during the click as bonus to that frame......t...
If we pay attention to our composition history...
and/or look at a lot of photographs, I believe we do a lot of the "framing" subconsciously... as well a discover what works and where the "problem" areas are. It's still nice when someone makes a clear statement. Casey .
I am, naturally,
in total agreement with your sentiments here. Framing effectuates a crucial, major difference in how we all process images, whether consciously or is the exact reason why my own preferences and tendencies were heavily affected by just a few people overal...
Use of negative space and the range of the colour palette are great techniques...
I just watched a YouTube video where Quentin Tarantino named his top 20 films... Tarantino has collaborated with cinematographer Robert Richardson... the latter having won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography three times (JFK, The Aviator, and Hugo)....
I haven't seen that footage....
It would surely be interesting and entertaining. I respect Q.T. fully for his total artistic integrity. With that said, his movies are simply highly entertaining live-action cartoons to me. I never took anything significant and certainly not personally af...
It always surprises me how little effort goes a long way in this area...
Setting up the shot for sure, but also taking a few short minutes to to polish the image. I have gotten into the habit of aligning, processing, and cropping my phone-camera images on the device, then brutally deleting the original(s). I love to share phot...
Nico... IMHO it's not really a photographer's thing...
The process of taking photographs and looking at photographs are two different skill sets albeit that a photographer has the advantage of looking at a lot of photographs. To be a good critic, in most cases, does not require that you are a hands-on expert ...
Hi Casey 🍻
Thank you for your thoughtful post. I’d say that, without framing/a point of view, the beautiful and mundane that surround us each day remain as ‘nature,’ without the intent that mutates nature into art…. It seems to me that art requires the framing/editi...
Thanks Stoikos... 👍
Art (as defined by Oxford Languages) is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. The '...
Just watched Bob Dylan in Masked and Anonymous and the "Frame" came into play
Throughout that movie, now that I have seen it for the fourth time I think. Even though it's now almost 20 years old it seemed strangely applicable to the events of today. In one scene Penelope Cruz says "You are just seeing the squashed bug on the windsh...
Great quote Mike...
when I used to work at a residential home for emotionally disturbed youth it was one of the conversations starters... put a black dot in the middle of a blank piece of A4 printer paper and ask then what they saw. I have to check out that movie... Casey .
Val Kilmer and the rabbit scene
Mickey Rourke the new ruler, John Goodman (preparing for his role in O Brother, Where Art Thou as the cyclops/Big Dan?), Luke Wilson, Bruce Dern, Jeff Bridges, on and on it went … No bug on my windshield this morning ... ...
I never frame with a camera. Ever.
I know exactly what I’m taking before I take it. I know what is interesting for me and what is not. That said I do this for a very specific scale. I don’t think I could say that for macro photography Also action photography. For those I try to capture as ...
One might broach the topic of framing...
by discussing the decisions on what to include in the given format, be that "17.3 : 13.0" or "24 : 36" or whatever, but I hear you regarding what might, to some, be considered the punctum & studium of a photograph. When I look at a photograph such as "The...
Another way to look at it would be
Is the framing something that happens in post or pre processing. Prior to digital photography framing was overwhelmingly pre processing. And I imagine this is still the case for videographers due to some technical limitations that medium faces (and here I...
Yeah...
For me, part of the process when I am shooting still images (film or digital) is to work out in my head how / where I am going to use the results and possible post processing alternatives. That process normally done pre-shot and/or while looking through t...
It makes sense
We humans tend to look for context and relativity. A frame provides one of not both. Compare evidence photos in criminal investigation. Often there is a measurement tape with the evidence photographed to provide scale and thus context. Even our naked huma...
Thanks for the comment Jurry
I get selections from "Le Cinéma World" in my social media feed... it's how I found the quote from Abbas Kiarostami... as well as a few of his still photographs from a google search... an interesting individual. Casey .