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# Framing in Photography
- URL: https://sprietjen.studio/314-framing-in-photography/
- Published: 2026-10-20T21:56:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-20T21:56:10.000Z
- Description: Preliminary research for our "Frame within a Frame" project
- Author: Judah Gilbert

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![](https://sprietjen.studio/content/images/2026/10/image.png)

This photograph is made up of several circular, consecutive, structural openings framing a person in the center. The outermost circular opening is the largest, with each consecutive opening getting smaller, directing the viewer’s eye to the center figure. The wall cut outs that comprise the multiple sub-frames in this photograph are cool in tone and sharp in focus, whereas the figure in the center is small. The figure is dark and far away, making it difficult to discern any kind of detail. The center background against which the figure is seen appears warm, possibly leading the viewer to think the figure is being drawn toward a brighter future than the bleakness they are leaving behind. 

![](https://sprietjen.studio/content/images/2026/10/image-1.png)

This photograph consists of a completely black foreground and what appears to be an asymmetrical structural hole or cut out in the lower two-thirds of the photograph. It is as if the viewer is meant to feel they are on some kind of stake out, attempting to observe the comings and goings of either anyone walking alongside the building visible through the hole, or the two people walking together captured in the photo. The figures are very small but relatively focused, as is the side of the building next to which the figures are walking. The foreground is completely black and the edges of the sub-frame are out of focus, obscuring the exact nature of the viewer’s location and giving the feeling that we are spying on the two figures walking.

![](https://sprietjen.studio/content/images/2026/10/image-2.png)

This photograph contains several, concentric sub-frames that get smaller as the viewer’s eye moves from the left side to the right side of the piece. The outermost subframe is made up of a structural wall, with more structural partial walls visible through the opening in the foreground. In front of the outermost opening, the lighting appears drab and grey. Inside the outermost sub-frame, and in between each partial wall thereafter, there are dark shadows thrown off by a very warm and yellow light. It appears as if the light is intended to draw the viewer into the room to see what is hidden behind the walls, or to follow the light to the end. The details of the wall are sharpest in the outermost sub-frame in the foreground, leaving the viewer to wonder what is waiting inside as the focus dissipates into the warmth.

![](https://sprietjen.studio/content/images/2026/10/image-3.png)

This photograph consists of a structural, arched sub-frame. There are two people, who could be a bride and groom, on a stone staircase in the center. The architectural detailing of the room, creating the sub-frame, is sharp, calling more attention to the border than to the couple in the center. The location of the staircase across the center helps to establish a three dimensional illusion. Underneath the staircase the lighting is dark, even though there is a light fixture just in front. The darkened alcove creates depth, as does the staircase’s location between the exterior wall of the structural sub-frame and the interior wall of the sub-frame. The lighting of the photograph is relatively warm, leading the viewer to feel like the couple pictured is likely celebrating.