Picture Perfect "Natural Framing" Theme

Good day and welcome to this weeks

Picture Perfect

I want to preface this week by laying out

the basics for posting your links/entries.
 For those of

you joining us from the old Multiply site things are no

different than they have always been. You will look at this

weeks theme, then shoot or choose your entry from an

archived shot (these must be YOUR own shots, not taken from the net).

Place your entry image along with any words/details you

would like to add, then post your entry to your OWN site.

Then copy your URL bring it over and paste it into the

comments below, do not paste your image into comments

or they will be deleted, as it creates a mess to wade through

as we try and visit each entry.

Now onto this weeks entry. 

There are many techniques used in

photography and we've used many of them in the past.

Honestly I dont remember if this one has been used.

Natural Framing is a way of using existing items to create

a "Frame" around your subject to define or draw ones attention

to the subject matter. There are countless ways of doing this,

using doorways or arches, windows, limbs of tress, or any other

structure serves this purpose.

For my example this week I used an archive from a few years

back when I was running another project called 
Mono Monday Plus.

I used two holes in the walls of Ft. Jackson, a tripod, the timer function, which all combined allowed me the time to pull focus in the manual mode, so it didnt shift, and with the timer counting it gave me mone minute to run some 30 odd feet and peek out the other hole.

I could have done this in PhotoShop but, when I did this originally  the emphasis was to teach to get the shot you want "without" relying on post production. So there you have it, now lets see how you go about framing and sharing your examples for this week.

"Gator In a Hole"

jgh/gator "Art is the Outward Expression of the Inner Need to Create Beauty"   We are now posting from our new home at http://muzenews.ning.com/group/picture-perfect  you can sign in using your google accounts and then join the group   PS: I am on the road shooting this weekend so most of my visits will be late evening and nights  

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