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Expressing with power ...

When we create a picture, we arrange some elements in the frame to obtain the desired effect. We want to clarify balance, harmony, perspective or rhythm, or on the contrary, we want to reach a fierce, contrasting and irregular image.

A photographer who captures a scene or a scene on the street cannot compose his image except by moving and looking carefully from several angles to take the picture. Pictures are rarely composed alone in the camera's viewfinder. The photographer's control over his subject depends on the way he will know how to take into account all the expressive elements. He can adjust the perspective by using a special lens or choose a special subject with a telephoto lens.

Sometimes it is impossible to compose an image carefully: time is too short when taking pictures of fast-moving subjects, street scenes or live images. In these cases, it is better to make the frame of the image very wide than to always enlarge the image and give it a new frame in the laboratory. Framing a photograph - that is, eliminating unhelpful parts of the image - is an excellent way to focus attention on the main subject.

A good photograph is made more powerful by framing it, by emphasizing qualities that were not noticed at the time the photograph was taken. Outside of photographing, laboratory operations are often the most important activities in photography. When possible, try to look at the photograph carefully before you even put it in the viewfinder of your camera.

Reframing a Photograph

The photograph on this page shows you the importance of framing a photograph. In this way, even the setting and purpose of a photograph can be completely different. The first photograph is a photograph that has not been framed: a little girl holding a black chicken in her hands, and in the background a little boy looking at the scene. By cutting off the edges of the photograph and eliminating the brick wall and the barrier, we have preserved the most important points. Indeed, we emphasize them: the child, the chicken, and the boy. If we also crop the photograph, we completely remove the background surface so that we retain only the child and the chicken: the background and the boy have disappeared, as well as the special atmosphere of the scene. The girl could have been photographed in the photographer's studio since the chicken is just a decorative element. In the last picture we also cut it out and kept only the face of the girl, the animal has disappeared in turn. There is nothing left to identify the places or the environment as in the first picture. Placing the picture in a new frame therefore modifies the overall meaning of the picture and determines the proportions of the drawing or printing paper. It is best to do the framing on the base of the magnifying machine by enlarging the section we want to keep according to the dimensions of the sensitive paper. If necessary, you can then trim the edges of the finished picture.