How To Take Photographs Through Frames

• 1). Use the frame of a doorway or a window as something you can peer through into the heart of the photograph. This is a simple and well-tried way of seeing that still creates many award-winning photographs. Although sometimes overdone, when correctly applied this technique can produce an outstanding image with a challenging emotional content. You can begin with a walk around the interior of your house, where you might find a door that is halfway ajar or even completely wide open. Position yourself so that the frame of the doorway is included in the picture. Center the picture on something interesting about the room. This can be something as simple as a beam of sunlight entering the room through a window.
  
  
• 2). Use the window frame to outline a reflective surface. Windows and windows in doors work quite effectively in this manner. The glass acts as a reflective surface picking up the image of clouds in the sky or a busy street and then the frame of the window (or door) becomes an interior frame within the picture. Go outside your own house or visit some public buildings in the town where you live and see what you can find. The best time of day to do this is when the sun is either just rising or just setting. This is an exciting creative technique that produces many innovative images.
  
  
• 3). Use an orthodox means of creating a frame. The side view mirrors of cars jump first to mind, when mentioning this topic. In fact, automobiles and trucks pose all sorts of possibilities of framing pictures in new ways. With all the glass windows and mirrors in a car, photographers are faced with many possibilities of either looking through the glass or catching a reflective image off the surface of the glass. For instance a car door that is wide open is a great way to frame a picture. Use the car door as the frame and the view through the window as the center of interest and you might come up with a good picture.
  
  
• 4). Continue your search for frames in unlikely places. Even nature photographers might find situations, where they will be able to use a frame, whether it be in the natural formation of a rock window, or an old farmhouse or covered bridge that offers an unique way to view the world. You can visit a rural area, where there is a natural park or better yet a historical building and search the premises for whatever unusual type of framing device that you can find. The possibilities are many.