breaking the Frame

I’ve always been a bit of a rebel but older and wiser now I do not break rules for their own sake. And with time on my hands at the station, I noticed this vignette and found it appealing both in terms of the shiny barrier stands and the way the diagonal framing cuts the photo into two. Seemingly the viewer has no single subject of focus but…

Your subject doesn’t always need to be perfectly contained by the frame that you’ve created, and sometimes having the subject escaping from one and into another can give a dynamic feeling to an image. ~ source

I’m not certain that this can be classified as dynamic but I like how the converging verticals and horizontals cut the space into smaller and smaller parts, relegating the subjects there.

12 thoughts on “breaking the Frame

  1. Couldn’t be more better than this, maybe. I am experiencing some doubt. But that’s good, that’s necessary. Your summary was exactly accurate. Taken in parts, the parts are all acceptable, ie. usual. But together they challenge our human expectations of seeing. So, rightly a learning opportunity seeing this way unified, for real and raw.

    Even the second image, while conventionally, culturally acceptable, yet presents so many agreeable parts well stitched, there remains this questionable perspective gathered together, approaching disconcerting.

    I think you are getting to a very interesting relationship about seeing. All of how you’re seeing is valuable for us to witness. Or I could have just said simply – wow.

    1. I always appreciate your in depth feedback Neil and you have pinpointed the nub of what constitutes ‘seeing’ in photography – things are not always photogenic, or clear and bright or surround framed so photos much surely include these other ways we look at our environs, not in its entirety but in pieces, fragments etc ‘well stitched’ as you so nicely put it

  2. I really don’t know much about photography. I just like what I like.
    I see what you’re saying about cutting the photo in two. That pole does it for our eyes.
    Would the image below be something like boke? (Boke is a Japanese word so I remember it. It means distortion)
    I like your photographs, Laura. Xoxo great eye!

    1. “bokeh (/ˈboʊkə/ BOH-kə or /ˈboʊkeɪ/ BOH-kay; Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image. Bokeh has also been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”.”
      the distortion is usually of the background when only the details of foreground subject are in focus and all else becomes blurred especially so that lights become orbed blobs 😉
      And thank you for your appreciation Selma x

  3. I love the way in which the photos dictates, but not strictly, perception and space as interconnected, and solitary ideas, and how they exist in places we visit often but perhaps do not notice them. Definitely dynamic , for my eyes.

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