Sometime you take a picture, look at it and realise that it's something special. It might may still need some touching up or light correction etc but it has that special quality that makes it stand out. A lot of the time we take lots of pictures that fall into the category that I call "happy snaps". These are important because they record some special event,place, time or person but there is nothing in them that is visually appealling or eyecatching.
These photos appeal to the person that took them but don't attract attention to anyone else looking (or forced to look) at your photos. Until recently I would have advocated using the ability to digitally zoom a photo within a frame to fill the frame with the person/thing that should be the focus of attention. I spent some time perusing traditional scrapbook pages and looking at the techniques used to focus attention on the subject of a photo in these traditional pages. Working traditionally with printed photos these people do not have the advantage of a digital zoom tool or any other digital techniques for that matter so they have been very creative with their scissors.
A lot of traditional techniques involve cutting and framing photos creatively. SBC3+ provides extensive cutting tools for doing just this but we often use them in a very basic way. Even very simple techniques applied creatively can help make a photo jump out of the page. These photos provide just a few examples.
Contact me if you would like more information on these techniques or come along to one of our
workshops where you can get lots of assistance to master these concepts.
