Element Day: Framing

"Whenever photographers create a photograph, they are selecting a slice of the world as described through a frame." -- Cynthia Way

This frame shows a portion of a store window that includes speakers and a drum set. The window has the words "BUY SELL TRADE". Behind the words there is the reflection of a building and a tree without any leaves on it. There is not the whole window or the name of the store or any lettering to describe exactly what kind of store window is shown. The type of store can be inferred or at least conjectured by what is included in the frame. Because I made this photograph myself I can visuallize what would happen if I stepped one step to the right or to the left to frame my photo.
This second photo was taken on the same day within a few minutes of the first. It is framed in a vertical format instead of the horizontal format. In this photo you can see more of the reflection of what is happening in the reflection than in the first photograph. In this photograph the words "BUY SELL TRADE" Are cut off or cropped (to be considered next week), but there is enough of each word there to figure out what the words are (even if I didn't give it way in the first photograph).



Ideas, observations, considerations, corrections, reflections - welcomed.

Next week: CROPPING

This post is part of my discovery of the Element's of the Language of Photography a introduction to this posting series can be found here.