How to make your photos outstanding

As we all know, one of the biggest obstacles in photography is that when you are faced with a three-dimensional scene with an HTC sense, you can only record it in a two-dimensional way, while the soul of the scene with the depth of the formal scene is often lost. In order to restore the depth of the original scene, we can add the foreground to create the depth of the picture.

When we take a photo, our passion naturally projects onto the subject, ignoring the other elements that get between the lens and the subject that can be used as foreground and create unexpected effects. Like other elements in a photographic composition, the foreground guides the viewer's eye through its shape, lines and graphics to flow rhythmically through the photo and is often used to enhance the visual impact of the photo.

What is foreground?

When you are faced with a spectacular natural scene, you can usually divide the scene into three parts: foreground, middle and background. For example, in the scene below, the colorful bushes appear as foreground characters, the pond behind them is the middle scene, and the forest in the distance is the background naturally.

Although the distance between the foreground, middle and background is not always so harmonious, they must be related to each other. When you're thinking about a picture, you can imagine that your picture is an opera stage, and the background of the picture is the stage set, which provides the main tone of the stage and creates the environment, the place where the story takes place. The center of the stage is the middle of the picture. The final foreground is the part closest to the audience, similar to the position of a band in an opera, which is most easily heard and observed, and the foreground usually shows more detail.

However, not all of the photos have these three parts, some only have foreground and background, and some are completely flat without any context.

How to make the best use of prospects?

Don't let the foreground sink into mediocrity. Try putting characters, trees, boats, flowers, rocks, or anything else close to you in the picture. Their addition wakes up the "depth" of the photo and gives it a virtual three-dimensional feel.

When you're working on your photos, if you feel that your photos look too flat and less three-dimensional, you can introduce the foreground to add depth of field to your photos, depending on what effect you want to create. You can choose to put something in as a foreground, but most of the time we will look for elements that are readily available and interesting around the scene, or we can change the camera's perspective, which is to shoot from a higher, lower Angle, or from one side of the scene.

For example, in this photo of a set of oaks, the oaks are arranged vertically. If you take this row of oaks on the front plane, they will have the same distance, focal length and size in the photo. The composition is too flat and looks boring. However, if you change your perspective a little and shoot from the side, you'll get a whole new world. In the new composition, the oak tree is presented from near too far, and the size of the oak tree will show an orderly change due to the perspective. When you show this photo to others, their eyes will be on the foreground, the largest of the oaks, and then their eyes will be guided by the foreground, gradually looking into the distance of the picture, and the "depth" of the picture will be fully displayed.

Similarly, you can lower your camera's Angle of view and add flowers and rocks on the ground to your foreground, which can also lead the eye and create depth of field.

Is similar to that of the other elements of composition, we join the prospects on it can increase the impact for our photos as the prerequisite, if it doesn't help us better tell a story, even destroyed the harmonious scene originally, distract the audience for the main body, so we should not point to increase its prospects for photos. It is important to remember that all elements in a photograph are for the service body.

Sometimes the foreground doesn't need to be very complicated, some simple graphics or lines can create unexpected effects, and there are numerous examples. The image of the ground in the above image is a good foreground, and with its guidance, our eyes naturally fall on the modern church as the subject of the photo. In addition, you can use extended walls, special materials and other interesting elements to find the right perspective for your photo.

To sum up, it is a very effective way to make your photos "Outstanding" and become more three-dimensional by arranging your composition before taking a picture and boldly adding interesting foreground elements before the subject of the picture. For photography lovers who aspire to landscape photography, this way is obviously very useful.