Saturday, January 28, 2023

Framing


One of the more interesting challenges I confronted while taking photographs in Japan was simply framing the image. My experience of the visual field was that it always seemed cluttered, full of information, and so I was always a bit uncertain about exactly where to point the camera. And after the fact, I have been struggling just a bit with what to include and exclude in my edits. As we become increasingly familiar with an environment, I suppose it becomes more obvious what should be included or excluded in an image. Perhaps I'll make some new discoveries about composition in my images from Japan. We'll see...