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You can frame your shot with a photo frame and hang it on the wall.  But that's not what concerns us here. There are different ways to frame a shot – your composition. The least people talk about is to make believe that the four margins physically confine the subjects in the image.  For example, in today's shot, the author made use of the horizontal line to be the  track for the bike to run on. The effect can be more intriguing and powerful for, say, an image to show a subject pushing the right margin as if pushing a wall; or a subject pretending to climb or crawl into the framed area.

The purpose for doing this depends on the particular theme and goal for the shot. Here the author just wishes the bike, apart from being the primary subject, to give a steady balance in the image against the cluttered, "heavy" background. The bike running on the lower margin as a track acts as a visual paper-weight to steady the overall composition. Imagine the bike being in the mid-field and you will certainly find the final image seemingly tilting backward.

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r i c k y l i said…
you are one true ricoh fans : D
25 October 2011 at 03:58
Nevin said…
That's true. Maybe also a fan of utilising a camera ;]

Thanks for visiting, Ricky.
25 October 2011 at 04:08
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