Who knew choreography and dance could be a new lens for framing photographs?! Katherine Liepe-Levison presented “All in the Framing (and the cropping…)” to Photographers East at this September’s meeting.

Calling on her career experience from the stage, she introduced the term ‘Proscenium’ (from proscenium arch, or the opening in the wall which stands between stage and auditorium in some theaters; the picture frame through which the audience sees the play.)  How would a director or choreographer place and move actor(s) or dancer(s) through the proscenium? The same concepts and designs apply directly to composition within the frame in photography – thirds, diagonals, simple frames, multiple frames, and overlapped scenes.

Kathy spoke at the end of her presentation about another framing technique, hyper-cropping, using a small portion of a capture as the final image.  To demonstrate, she presented various hyper-cropped treatments of the same original capture.

Thank you, Kathy, for allowing us to see photography through a directors lens!

You can see more at her website: Tour de Force Photography by Katherine Liepe-Levinson: Fine Art images from the edgy to the sublime.