In this photoshoot, I am looking at the formal element of framing, inspired by Laurent Kronental’s Paris windows.

 

I have photographed my English house windows​ and a number of window-like spaces at a nearby flint castle, which I also felt were very fundamentally British. When taking photos I considered the Rule of Thirds and how the window spaces framed the view beyond them. Many of my castle photos also have the empty sky beyond the windows, as I feel this makes them ideal to easily Photoshop out the sky so I can put something different behind them as if the viewer is looking through a British window space into something foreign or displaced that I put on a layer below, so that it looks beyond.

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For the first of my three edits, I have used Adobe Photoshop to tone down the brightness of the overexposure glare that reflected off the white walls, in contrast to the darker window frames. I also tried to reduce the reflections in the glass as I wanted to create a dark, mysterious space beyond that I could perhaps place something behind in the future. For my second edit, I chose one of my most successful castle photos and I worked on turning it into a PNG with a transparent view through the window, using the select and delete method in Photoshop, so that it can be later used as a framing space on a higher layer than other photos in Photoshop. For my third edit I increased the brightness of the foreground and darkened the background so that the overexposure was less obvious and the red flowers were highlighted as the focal point, in the Rule of Thirds.