{"id":3339,"date":"2010-06-04T05:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2018-01-03T22:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T02:12:55","slug":"composition-framing-the-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/composition-framing-the-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"composition &#8211; framing the shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/anelisa\/NvN_2789.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>composition in photography &#8211; framing the shot<\/h1>\n<p>In composing a photograph, what you <strong><em>exclude<\/em><\/strong> from the frame, is as important as what you include. \u00a0With this portrait of Anelisa, I noticed that at this angle, the light reflecting off the black-painted wall created a warm glow of light behind her. \u00a0With the receding lines of the bricks, I immediately composed the photo to <em>exclude<\/em> everything but our model and the specific background. \u00a0A very specific background. Looking at the edges of the camera&#8217;s viewfinder, I eliminated everything that could distract or didn&#8217;t add to the image, such as the shop fronts in the background. \u00a0(This image could perhaps still be tightened up with a minor crop in the edit. \u00a0But this is the full frame as I had it in the camera, so I had to go with the usual 2:3 ratio.)<\/p>\n<p>The lighting?<br \/>\nJust the sunlight reflecting off the sidewalk that flooded the area with warm soft light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>composition in photography &#8211; framing the shot In composing a photograph, what you exclude from the frame, is as important as what you include. \u00a0With this portrait of Anelisa, I noticed that at this angle, the light reflecting off the black-painted wall created a warm glow of light behind her. \u00a0With the receding lines of&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/composition-framing-the-shot\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[431,9,24,42,1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anelisa-durham","8":"category-composition","9":"category-models","10":"category-technique","11":"category-uncategorized","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41164,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/41164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}