When deciding to take a photograph, a photographer looks at the world around him or her and carefully choose what will be all the elements included in the photograph. According to Shore, the depictive level of the photograph is made up of four attributes, flatness, frame, time, and focus. A picture is flat because it is two-dimensional and has a relationship with the picture plane, where it has one vantage point. The frame of a picture is created by the edges, and the edges either bring in or cut out piece of the world. The subject within these edges determine the photographer’s recipient of the frame’s emphasis. There are two factors for time in a photograph, the duration of exposure and the state mess of the final image. The purpose of the focus of the photograph is to give emphasis to a part of the picture that is the subject rather than just a small part of the photograph.
Szarkowski describes five key elements of photography. The thing itself which is the actual photograph. The second element is the detail, which allows the photographer to use pictures as symbols, rather than as a narrative. The third element is the frame, which he states is the central act of photography. A photograph’s key element is time, it represents only the present and is determined through a shorter or longer exposure. Shore and Szarkowski both agree that time is important when making a photograph, it is a snapshot of what is. The final element is vantage point, which has allowed photographer’s to photograph the unexpected and get different pictures.
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