Besides the glances I would get from people walking nearby, I had a nice time viewing places around Bethlehem with a cutout frame. After a while, my senses would only focus on what I’m seeing from the frame, as if everything disappeared except the landscape that was in the small dimension. The experiment felt like seeing things through a camera, where the focus was solely on the objects and people in the lens. If I wanted to see something else or avoid stumbling, I would have to constantly shift the frame, giving emphasis to another part of the landscape. Lastly, I felt focused on more details throughout the frame, such as checking out the spine of a leaf or a shoe imprint in mud. When all things are said and done, what I view in the camera will be what’s focused on by the audience and that’s what I need to keep in mind when documenting later.
