PARALLELA WORLD OF YOUR OWN
PARALLEL ORIGINALS / Practice project

One window, three distances

Keep the subject and change only your distance from it.

One window, three distances
A composition diagram for this exercise, not a photograph.

Farther away: show its place

Begin with a frame that includes the surroundings: wall, ground, or neighboring buildings. Ask what it tells someone who has never been there. Establish the setting before deciding what to remove.

Closer: find a particular detail

Let the window occupy more of the second frame and look for a reflection, curtain, or trace of use. Stay within places you may enter; you can change the framing from the same position. Choose a detail you genuinely want another person to notice.

Then connect the three

For the third frame, isolate a smaller detail or step back to show a new relationship. Arrange the images as setting, subject, and detail, and give them one shared title. The sequence should offer a viewing order rather than three nearly identical pictures.

Make it a small practice

  1. Choose a window or doorway you may photograph.
  2. Make setting, subject, and detail versions.
  3. Give the three photographs a shared title.

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