In order to enhance your photographs you need to both draw attention to the image and play off of its natural beauty. It really has to match the frame you put it in. There are many different picture frames available. As you probably know, there are millions of different sizes, themes, colors, and styles. They can come in modern, elegant, baroque, rustic, antique, minimalistic and thousands of other potential styles. And then each of these styles can be made out of many different materials. Popular ones seem to be wood, plastic, ceramic, and of course silver plated metal.
What I am really passionate about though, is silver plated picture frames. I see very few pictures that don't look great in them (paintings on the other hand need a lot more thought put into the process of picking their frame). These look especially great with black and white photos.
One of the best collections of photograph frames I have seen lately is the Martha Stewart Collection of Silver Plated Frames. A few of these products really jumped out at me, but before I get into that I want to take a general overview of the collection. These have an extremely modern look to them. They are very minimalistic with a a very thin rim. What is really different about frames in this category though is that the rims are beaded as opposed to just being flat. It certainly adds a bit of uniqueness to these specific frames.
The first one that jumped out at me was the 5 Photo Collage Silver Plated Frame. The first thing you might notice about this frame is that it has a very unique way of separating the photos. Most “true” collage picture frames give each image a similarly sized framed hole. These ones splits the frame in fourths, then splits one of the fourths in half. I think it look really unique. This would be especially great for doing something like putting 3 large pictures of each of your children (if you have 3 of course) and then 2 smaller photos of all of you together. These frames also have a nice looking cream colored mat.
Most of the collection has a beaded edge but there are also Thin Rimmed Silver Plated Frames. Rather than having the rounded over beaded edge they have the far more modern look of a thin flat edge. These are still made of a nice looking silver plating and the polishing looks great. I find them to be far more elegant than the rest of the already elegant collection of silver plated frames.
