I grabbed a picture frame and did a quick session the other day. It’s an easy prop and I do see it done often but it works. Plus, you really should try everything so you can say you did it and so you know you did your paces in photography. Not to mention that doing these things can help you communicate with clients more easily. There is usually a communication gap between the photographer and the client. It isn’t because the clients don’t know what they want, they usually do, but because the jargon gets in the way. However, if you have a photo of your past work and they see it while checking you and your services out, they can just point to that and say, “that’s what I want, something like that!”
Everyone wins in that scenario.
This was a relatively easy setup. I had a photography strobe equipped with an octagon softbox just off to the side. Obviously, I used a picture frame, it was an 8 by 10 frame I think. I also made use of the leading lines on the road they help guide the eye to the subject. The lens I used was 70-200mm lens and I was closer to 200mm for that enlarged background.