Depth of Field Frame
Shally lives 10,590.33km away from me, though that hasn’t always been the case. She and I have been together for more than 4 years, now. I kind of miss her a lot. I decided that I should put a picture of her next to me at work, on the wall - not anything ridiculously large, but a small reminder for me that she’s out there somewhere.
I had a photograph she sent me from her mobile phone that had some neat depth of field going on, so I decided to use that one and to make a funky fresh frame for it that would highlight the focal field of the photograph.
I edited Shally’s picture in Photoshop. The bottom layer of the frame has her image blacked out, but the background in tact, to reinforce the shadow the upper level creates. The top layer is a cutout of her from a second print of the photograph.
I cut out 4 cardboard rectangles and painted the insides black, then glued the bottom layer to the sides. The upper layer only touches two sides, so it was easy to glue in the middle of the sides.
One thing that I particularly like about this design is how easy it is to put it up on a wall. Most frames or clocks you try to hang have tiny holes for screws to go into that are fully enclosed - they have plastic on all sides, so it’s hard to locate the screw without being very intimate with the wall. The catch mechanism on this frame is open on the bottom, protrudes a little, and is shaped in such a way as to guide the thumbtack home. Hanging it takes no effort at all!
It isn’t the same as having Shally with me in the flesh, but this frame is a heck of a lot cooler than other methods of displaying images that don’t utilize all three dimensions.
