Test Your Skills #3

Highlight Framing Test

Remember this scrapbook page?

In the second Effective Framing video, I talked about how you could use an independent frame to highlight the subject of a photo. I’ll refer to this as “highlight framing.”

A huge part of highlight framing is about starting off with the right kind of photo. To determine if a particular photo is good for highlight framing, I’ve created a little test.

Step One: Ask yourself, “What is the subject of the photo?”

Step Two: Put the photo to the test.

This is a good choice for highlight framing if:

• the subject fills 1/3 to 1/2 of the photo

This is a bad choice for highlight framing if:

• the subject fills the photo (too big)
• the subject is zoomed way out (too small)

Let’s work together to apply this test to several different photos.