Rain

Today I have been doing 1.4 Frame. I have found it hard to get out to do a shoot because of the weather. Although in the end I did manage to get out and do one.
This question popped up when I was reading through the work today, and I didn’t know whether I had to answer it or not, but I thought I may as well anyway.
‘Looking back at some of your compositional exercises from earlier in Part One, would you agree that in the less conventionally successful shots, there is the feeling of a ‘cropped view’ rather than a ‘transparent window to the world ?’

(Bloomfield, 2018)

In Project 2, I feel that the first exercise my images worked well, as with the first shoot of 1.3 and I would have to disagree with ‘feeling of cropped view’. This is because I think that the framing of the shots worked well and effectively. Although my train track shots were much closer up and there was less to contain in the image as there were only parts of a track in the shot. I would therefore agree that it had a ‘feeling of cropped view’, because if you didn’t know that it was a train track beforehand and didn’t know what a train track looked like, then you would probably think ‘what is this’. Also, for 1.4 Frame, again, I would have to disagree also, because when using the viewfinder grid, it led the majority of images to feel cropped as I was only focusing on composing a certain subject in a certain way, not taking into consideration the rest of the frame.

Below is an image that I feel is a wonderful piece of architecture, although I took this close up (so it’s not very good framing!!) it is a favourite of mine.

© Lewis.Gibson.Photography.2019