The Paris Frame-Within-a-Frame Technique That Changed How I Think About Composition

The Paris Frame-Within-a-Frame Technique That Changed How I Think About Composition

Last month I was editing a beauty campaign shot in an urban environment, brick archways and iron railings everywhere, and I kept cropping my way into corners trying to make the images feel intentional rather than accidental. The architecture was beautiful but it was competing with my subject instead of working for her. I knew something was off and I kept adding clarity, adjusting color, reaching for every retouching tool I had, when the actual problem was upstream of all of that.