Photography

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......this is just me ....maybe

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 .

in total agreement with your sentiments here. Framing effectuates a crucial, major difference in how we all process images, whether consciously or subconsciously.This is the exact reason why my own preferences and tendencies were heavily affected by just a few people overall. Those were the people whose idiosyncratic artistic and technical taste was so subjectively strong, that I couldn't help but become consumed by their visual presentation, and most importantly the subject matter they were writing about, colored by their world views and beliefs. I would say, the single most affecting visual concept in photography and cinema that I felt inherently connected to is negative space. Behind this would be a de-saturated natural color palette (or occasionally monochrome), and the famous Dutch angle . Thanks for the interesting thread! Filip

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). Casey .

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 affecting from them.... I've seen most of them once and that was pretty much enough - the hyper punchy, snappy dialog only has that 'shocking' effect the first time . Cheers, Filip

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 photos over a coffee or after dinner and feel somehow obligated to present the images in the best light 😉.

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/editing/selection/storytelling layer of artifice. 

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.

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 .

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 …

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 much information as I can and subsequently see if anything hits me. But that’s not framing either, it’s just saying the world in stop motion and looking at it the same way I’d look at a still life. Maybe that’s what he was talking about.

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 think it shades the statement of the person quoted).
Digital is interesting because for someone like me it allows the quick collection of data with the idea that I will organize it later. This has the inherent advantage of “hit and run”. I still need to know what it will look like and understand (like a diamond cutter looking at a diamond) exactly what I can get out of it, but it allows me the freedom to grab the data and go. So for me photography is just a capture medium to express what I see and how I see it.

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 human eye provides a frame due to the max angle at which we can see plus our left and right eye sight overlap to provide depth of field.
Hence the frame is provided.

But it’s very cool to have it spelled out so clearly. It makes you think about what you see and thus what you photograph.

Thanks for sharing this inspirational quote

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 .