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Photographing Ruins
Look at different ways of framing your subject with parts of the architecture or structure. This will give the
subject additional references to its site and may create a more interesting composition than a straight on
shot. Doors and overhead structures are a natural for this type of framing.
Pulling out details from the overall structure can sometime make sense of an otherwise overwhelming and
confusing image. In the case of a steel mill where the function of the structure is pretty much a mystery to
anyone but a steel worker, familiar forms give access and an avenue for understanding what the function
might be, or at least allows us to say "that sort of looks like a house or barn buried in there".
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