The frame exists first.
An exposure cannot come before its frame.
1 · The unused frame
A blank frame is loaded in the gate. It exists before any light reaches it.
1 · The unused frame
A blank digital frame is created, one of a kind. It exists before any file is bound to it.
2 · Light
Light fills the world, unrecorded.
2 · Bits
Ones and zeros are everywhere, unwitnessed.
3 · Lens
The lens gathers it toward a single point.
3 · The file
A file gathers them into one exact arrangement, condensed to a short code: its fingerprint.
4 · The dark chamber
The sealed space where exposure happens. Light enters only through the lens.
4 · The sealed box
The sealed process where capture happens. Only the fingerprint enters, along one defined path.
5 · The exposed frame
Light strikes the waiting frame once. The film advances. There is no going back.
5 · The exposed frame
The fingerprint exposes the waiting frame once. The chain advances. There is no going back.
= A photograph
This scene, in this frame, at this moment.
= A BitGraph
This file, in this frame, at this moment.
Film is the recording medium for light.BitGraph is film for data.