Since the exercise on framing I’ve been looking at pictures trying to work out why shots have been framed as they are, and also trying to image what might be just outside the picture.
The thing that prompted this post wasn’t a photograph, but a movie. I just watched The King’s Speech and was fascinated by the choice of framing for many of the shots taken in Lionel Logue’s studio. The characters were framed very off-centre, kept to almost a quarter of the frame which is something you don’t often see in movie. This left the plain but (very) run-down textured background very much centre stage and instead being distracting it focused you even more on what the actors were saying.
After my recent comment about Diane Arbus’ images ‘being like a movie’ it was nice to see a movie that that applied some stills photography techniques.