Frame photography

You can frame photography to produce quality images using natural elements, architecture, or props. Learn how to create a composition like the pros.

25 Images with Using Framing in Composition - weekly inspiration to get you out shooting using the element of composition known as framing.

Frame your pictures through the means of composition while photographing and use natural borders of the street to create a framework.

Learn how to take frame within a frame photography in different genres.

Framing is a popular concept that you’ll find within plenty of composition tutorials.

Deborah Tarr studied painting at the Winchester School of Art, earning her BA in 1988. Since then, her beautifully designed abstract works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Britain and the United States. She has been represented by Cadogan since 2002. Her career has gone from...

Every photograph has a frame. By its very nature, the top, bottom, and sides of a photo, be it digital or printed are the boundaries of our composition. However, composition does not have to stop at the physical or digital edges of our images. Very often we add an extra frame to the outside of our images. This could be a photo frame for a print or a black border for a digital image. Both will change the composition of the image.