Photographic term foreground

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A person or thing in front of or near the front of a subject.In a shot, used as a foil to the subject or as part of a dramatic setting.It can enhance the space depth of the picture, balance the composition and beautify the picture.In some mobile photography, the change and alternation of the foreground can enhance the sense of movement and rhythm of the lens.The foreground should be organically combined with the content of the picture. The one-sided pursuit of the decorative beauty of the foreground will destroy the unity of the picture and even weaken or confuse the subject.According to the needs of scene scheduling, the foreground may be converted to the background as the camera moves in the scene and the camera position changes.

How to photograph the foreground

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Photography is different from normal visual perception in form, because it USES the optical characteristics of camera lens to create a center of interest. Of course, the central picture will attract people's attention.A photographer, should learn the combination of lens and eyes, the feeling of the eyes and the performance of the lens seamlessly exposed in the negative, photography is good.

Outlook performance no doubt is the center of interest, but are often turn a blind eye to people's eyes, such as a stone, a clump of thatch, spectacular between heaven and earth, who will manage the immediate mustard of beans, when you put the micro through the lens of mustard beans become the leading image, the performance of the world immediately change minor, photography is often in the subtleties of for the impact of the unexpected.

The vast majority of photography lovers have a strong interest in scenery, and people's psychological feelings towards nature often can't help pressing the shutter, but the results are disappointing.Especially for big scenes that are days away, the reasons for the lack of comparison are often bland.

If you look at the horizon, you lack depth and distance.When shooting a big scene, loose and disorderly becomes a big drawback. The most clever method is to find a foreground, and the picture will shrink immediately, because people's eyes focus on a point from scattered faces or monotonous lines, and the objects they see will change greatly without changing their psychological feelings.

If make picture wonderful, foreground choice wants exquisite of course.

One is that it's very fancy

People are always interested in strange things shape is always the first impression of objective things on people, qifeng strange stone old tree qiu zhi uneven foreground will make the composition lively form first determine the readability of the picture.

Two colors stand out

Color will make the foreground and background separated from the main sense of the picture to strengthen the color of the original ecological performance of objective things that is the color of the image itself that is the color of the original color also by the change of dry light to increase the variation of color such as the snow under the sunset, shadow blue and sunny yellow will produce an unexpected dramatic effect.In black and white photography, only the contrast of tone is used to enhance the difference between foreground and background.

Thirdly analogy

Emphasizing the correspondence between the former and the latter, comparing the same kind of images in terms of volume, such as rocks and gobi, thatch and grassland, waves and sea, the same kind of items will be more convincing.

Using the law of "comparison", people's psychological feelings and physiological judgment will be strengthened in comparison. The result of the enhancement is that photographic works are well presented. Comparison is cruel and most effective.If you choose a foreground that is representative of the entire scene, chances are your work will be a masterpiece.Of course, it depends on your ability to judge things.

Application of foreground

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Experienced photographers are good at using foreground when shooting, which is an important technique of expression in the art of photography.The foreground can be the subject or the companion in the picture, which determines the structure of the picture and can improve the artistic expression of the work.Proper foreground enhances the sense of space, creating contrast and contrast.An inappropriate prospect can distract or even steal the show.Therefore, should aim at the picture content expression intention to select the foreground, is not suitable for the foreground and the foreground.

1. When shooting, the foreground should be consistent with people's visual habits -- big in front and small in back.

For example, sitting indoors and looking out through doors and Windows can form the visual experience of "building outside building". The natural proportion of large objects in front and small objects in back can be classified as "visual science" in theory. Visual art is the artistic effect created according to the principle of perspective.

2. The use of foreground to enhance the contrast between scenes is an important way to improve the expressiveness of works.

Contrast is to highlight the main body, using the contrast between the foreground and the companion, breaking the structure of a single body.Contrast of shadow tone also is to make full use of the light and shade between foreground, middle scene, perspective, of colour, foil each other form rich administrative levels.

3. Choice of prospect.

(1) choose scenery with seasonal and local features as the foreground, and consciously use the foreground to render a certain atmosphere or feature.For example, choosing flowers and trees with seasonal features to make the picture full of atmosphere is the most common.Similarly, scenes with local features can add rich local color or exotic flavor to the picture.

(2) let the foreground surround the main image to form a frame.Such a prospect can lead the eyes to the scenery within the frame, so that the subject can be prominent, express the sense of space in the depth of the picture, give a sense of immersive scene, but also can add to the beauty of the picture pattern.Window frame, door frame, palisade, design form hole is common frame type foreground.

(3) with the subject in the form or content of the contrast, metaphor or comparison of the role of the scene as the foreground, often can cause the audience association, produce artistic conception, thus deepening the performance of the picture or reveal the theme of the picture.

4, the use of foreground performance.

(1) use multiple exposures and foreground to highlight the subject.In daily life, the eyes can see things, but the picture is not shown, can be used to achieve the purpose of multiple exposure.For example, if you take a picture of a night scene with a person in the foreground and a full moon in the background, you can use the method of double exposure to solve the problem due to the limited conditions. To a certain extent, it will change the original appearance of objective things and have a unique effect.

(2) contrast between the real and the virtual.In photography, the subject must be real, the companion or secondary object must be virtual.Virtual is attached to the specific content of the picture and exists, with virtual to highlight the reality of the subject.For example, if the following method is used to shoot the horse racing, the foreground horse racing is shot solid, while the background audience is shot virtual, resulting in the dynamic state of rapid running of the horse racing on the screen.

The importance of the foreground of starry photography

(1) intersperse starry photography with foreground.In starry sky photography, a good prospect is especially important. It can not only highlight the local landform characteristics, but also bring a kind of interest and a better appreciation to the photos, just like watching the starry sky on the ground

(2) the forward choice of starry sky shooting.Generally, wide Angle lens is used for starry sky shooting, and the aperture of f3.5-f1.4 is generally used. Tents, rocks, roads, mountain slopes, peaks, etc. can be selected for the foreground. If there is no wind, then trees, plants, etc. can be selected

A good theme should have a good form of expression. Proper application of foreground can enhance the expressiveness of the work and create a new artistic conception.

The technique of blurring the foreground

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I believe everyone has seen a lot of the effect of background blur in portrait shooting, but in fact, we can change the scene selection and shooting Angle to make the blurred scene appear before or before the portrait, so that the composition can have more changes.

In order to produce a blurred background, large aperture, long focal length and distance of the subject must be used. If the background is to be blurred, the subject must be at a certain distance from the background and as close as possible to the subject, so that the blurred effect will be the best.

On the contrary, we should keep the foreground as close as possible to the front of the lens because of a certain distance from the subject. Only in this way can we get a better foreground blur effect.But remember the relationship between the foreground and the subject, do not abuse the foreground and disturb the subject.In the use of foreground composition might as well think about the foreground of the main body of what foil role.

You also need to pay more attention when focusing, focus on the subject and then move the composition, in the case of inaccurate autofocus mode can be used to focus manually.Of course, some cameras may not have a small depth of field, but we can use post processing to achieve the same effect, which will be covered in a future article.