Day 63 - Photo A Day Challenge - 3-3-2012
Mar 3, 2012 02:03:42 #
Welcome to Day 63 :) Today we are going to take a look at something I personally have a tendency to neglect. The Foreground. How do we make the foreground work for us?
The best way would be to have something interesting in the foreground to look at. The tricky part is finding something that's interesting but doesn't compete with or
distract attention from the main subject of the photo. Since the main subject of the photo is the most important part of it, the elements around the subject, such as
the foreground should play a supporting role. What if you can't find something interesting to put in the foreground? Then just leave it out. Make the main subject of the
photo the foreground and let the background play a supporting role. An undesirable foreground can be eliminated by moving closer to the subject, or by changing viewpoint
or camera angle. In most cases, the foreground should be sharply focused and of sufficient depth to furnish substantial support for the subject, but not so prominent that
it distracts from the subject. A fuzzy, out of focus foreground usually irritates the senses and detracts from emphasis on the subject matter.
Here are a few examples to get us started .. I look forward to seeing what y'all come up with.
The best way would be to have something interesting in the foreground to look at. The tricky part is finding something that's interesting but doesn't compete with or
distract attention from the main subject of the photo. Since the main subject of the photo is the most important part of it, the elements around the subject, such as
the foreground should play a supporting role. What if you can't find something interesting to put in the foreground? Then just leave it out. Make the main subject of the
photo the foreground and let the background play a supporting role. An undesirable foreground can be eliminated by moving closer to the subject, or by changing viewpoint
or camera angle. In most cases, the foreground should be sharply focused and of sufficient depth to furnish substantial support for the subject, but not so prominent that
it distracts from the subject. A fuzzy, out of focus foreground usually irritates the senses and detracts from emphasis on the subject matter.
Here are a few examples to get us started .. I look forward to seeing what y'all come up with.
snow was the subject in this one
Mar 3, 2012 02:18:17 #
photogrl57 wrote:
Welcome to Day 63 :) Today we are going to take a ... (show quote)
OK, photogirl, that 5th one is creepy! What is that all about? Is that in a cemetery or something?
These are all really nice examples. They make it easy to understand the challenge
Mar 3, 2012 02:50:27 #
Mar 3, 2012 03:15:11 #
Mar 3, 2012 03:51:33 #
Is that road there the road up to your mountain you always talk about? Looks like a scary road...lol...but picturesque for sure! Nice pics photogrl!
photogrl57 wrote:
Welcome to Day 63 :) Today we are going to take a ... (show quote)
Mar 3, 2012 03:51:55 #
Mar 3, 2012 03:57:46 #
Ok...well tomorrow is the start of the 1,000 mile grueling world championship sled dog race...the Iditarod! From Anchorage, to Nome....64 mushers will compete... and Ill be there somewhere along the Anchorage, route taking some awesome (I hope) pictures of all the action! Soooo I won't be online til much later in the day. ....it's 25 degrees here and snowing...one thing you'll never hear in Anchorage is..."boy Mabel, we sure needed some more snow!"......Nope!....so here are some foreground posts...mainly from an awesome trail over mountains called Resurrection Trail!
Resurrection Trail lake
melting June snow
springs from snow melt
Mar 3, 2012 04:07:43 #
For those of you who could not find the hidden object yesterday ...here is the original picture and then a cropped close up...of the hidden element. ...hehehe.....bet ya didnt find it did ya?
original rock formation
close up of hidden element...
Mar 3, 2012 06:55:52 #
I hope at least one of these is right, I got into looking and sort of forgot if the whole picture needed to be in focus or just foreground.
Mar 3, 2012 07:11:23 #
Dunno, PG..looks a lot like yesterday's focal point theme. Whatta ya say? Kind of bewildered, but then I'm still on coffee #1 too.
Mar 3, 2012 07:32:30 #
Foreground photo. During the month of August a few years ago, the summer had been excessively dry and so we were able to walk up this rocky stream bed searching for this arched stone railroad bridge that we had heard about. The only way to access this bridge was to walk up the stream bed. the rockiness of our route is well illustrated in the foreground of the photo I had taken as we approached the beautiful stone arch. A reflection of the arch is also visible in the water. This stone bridge was a glorious find!
Mar 3, 2012 07:36:32 #
I have favourite subjects for taking pictures of, one of them is lighthouses. This picture has quite a busy foreground, but the center focal point is the lighthouse. In the foreground, a street lamp and a brick wall share the attention getting also.
Mar 3, 2012 07:43:21 #
This picture reminds me a bit of Roadrunners focal point photos of large chunks of ice along the St. Lawrence river in the province of Quebec. My photo has similarities to Roadrunners as it also has a large chunk of matter, in the foreground which is a rock. My focal point is not the large rock but a large flock of Snowgeese which I had found at Saint Jean Port Joli, along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. The large rock is the foreground in this picture.
Mar 3, 2012 07:46:01 #
Mar 3, 2012 07:48:04 #
Fred Ann wrote:
This picture reminds me a bit of Roadrunners focal point photos of large chunks of ice along the St. Lawrence river in the province of Quebec. My photo has similarities to Roadrunners as it also has a large chunk of matter, in the foreground which is a rock. My focal point is not the large rock but a large flock of Snowgeese which I had found at Saint Jean Port Joli, along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. The large rock is the foreground in this picture.
:thumbup: Hey..Chez Nous!
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