Teach you the layering of portrait works with foreground.

Many friends know that the background may determine the success or failure of portrait works, but people often ignore the significance of the foreground to portrait works. In fact, the prospect is far more concerned than the background, and its positive role is far greater than the background, provided that you know how to use it.

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Foreground is an element that can make the picture show depth and three-dimensional sense immediately. If you imagine the subject in the picture as the middle scene, then a promising image has at least three levels, so that this photo will have a sense of hierarchy. How to observe and discover the prospect in the environment? Photographs are two-dimensional art, which has no depth in essence, but photographers can create depth through the content in the picture, giving viewers a visual experience from shallow to deep. Here we need to use the perspective principle and the configuration of the foreground. Matching a foreground in the picture can effectively create a sense of depth and make the picture appear rich in layers.

Being too close to people often ignores the prospect. Setting the camera slightly away from the main body will naturally bring more scene elements into the viewfinder. Just choose a suitable element as the foreground. Step-by-step screening from far to near is a skill to shoot portraits with scenery. Trying different shooting angles and trying to find more relationships between people and the environment from different angles can bring about the variability of composition.

First, the prospect of occlusion

Take any element in the plant scene such as flowers as the foreground, and let the photographer's perspective be close to this foreground. When composing a composition, let the whole foreground block a part of the main body in the picture.

Second, extend the prospects.

Before shooting, look for regular lines or elements around you, make a composition according to this rule, and put the subject in. Generally speaking, walls, railings, floors, sand dunes, etc. It can usually be used as an extended prospect. The blurred railing is the foreground, and we see people along the railing. This is the middle scene with the background behind the characters. The picture still has three levels: front, middle and back.

This photo belongs to the framed foreground, and clusters of pink cherry blossoms are the foreground, blocking the characters' calves.

Third, the prospect of framing.

Frame view is also a special prospect. The composition of the frame scene is somewhat similar to the shadow foreground, but the shadow area is relatively large, resulting in the shadow on the periphery of the subject and the vacancy in the middle. Such a composition requires the photographer to observe the surrounding environment more carefully. Scene elements can be gaps between leaves, fences, window frames, etc. When shooting, you can constantly adjust the position through the viewfinder until the foreground in the picture successfully "frames" the characters.