Why the caption "Hope", that gives the name to this photo? Well, i tried to frame a fisherman, who is trying to catch, may be the evening's meal for the family. Hoping a fish from the sea...

We see him through a window in bright background. On the other hand, environment on the foreground is a view from inside of a wreck. You can see all the destruction under dark atmosphere.

This place is actually an abandoned, loading - unloading dock where the crop can be transferred from the cargo ship to the silo on the ground or vice versa. Ruined building is a kind of left over from a past setup.

So lets leave the story to the side and try to explain the picture.

Common rules in photography

In photography there are some rules that are commonly used. I try to practice each of them but the list can be very long indeed :) Some sources start to list these elements from 7 and some others go up to 20! I am not going to bother you by going through all of them one by one. But to mention some i keep in mind, when practicing are as below:

• Rule of thirds
• Juxtaposition
• Leading lines
• Point of view
• Rule of space
• Framing

For a more detailed explanation and broad list, i can share this link from PetaPixel.

Here I want to focus on framing, as done with the picture above.

But before jumping to framing, one should understand that we can not confine ourselves to these rules. May be, to clarify how to handle rules, I think it is worth to mention a quote from Edward Weston that I have read on one of the posts at Digital Photography School.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

What i understand from him is, the presence of gravity doesn't prevent us from jumping. So we should learn the rules, to broaden our abilities without opposing to the mechanisms.

Natural framing in photography

So the question is why framing is applied in photography and what are the points to take in consideration?

The main reason is to drive the eyes towards the subject. In this photo above, we see a dark wall around the subject, fisherman, applied in 4 sides. But it is not necessary to frame all around. A frame can be 3, 2 or even 1 sided. It all depends on the picture composition you choose.

Do you know that we can apply frame by any kind of object in the view? We can fill a space with framing or cover unwanted things around. By the way, it doesn't need to be in dark or linear shape. As the name suggest you need to frame the view!

If interested, you can check more examples with explanation, from the link shared above, from Digital Photography School.

See below another picture I shot while studying framing. Not one but two frames!