What is the role of foreground in photographic composition?

Function: in the lens picture, it is used to set off the main body or form a part of the drama environment. It has the function of setting off the main body and decorating the environment, which is helpful to enhance the spatial depth of the picture, balance the composition and beautify the picture. In some mobile phone photography, the sense of movement and rhythm of the lens can be enhanced through the change and alternation of the foreground.

Foreground is the person or thing in front of or near the subject in the lens. The foreground should be organically combined with the content of the picture. One-sided pursuit of the decorative beauty of the foreground will destroy the unity of the picture, and even weaken or confuse the subject represented. According to the needs of scene scheduling, with the movement of the camera in the scene and the change of position, the foreground may also be transformed into the background accordingly.

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Foreground shooting skills:

1, with a strange shape

People are always interested in strange things, and the shape is always the first impression of objective things. The concave and convex prospect of Qifeng grotesque rocks will make the composition vivid and determine the readability of the picture in form.

2, the color is outstanding

Color will separate the foreground from the background and enhance the subjective feeling of the picture. Color has the original ecological expression of objective things, that is, the color of the object itself, that is, the real color. Dry light broadens the variation color of light, such as snow in the sunset, blue in the shadow and yellow on the sunny side, which will produce unexpected dramatic effects. In black-and-white photography, only the contrast of hue can strengthen the difference between foreground and background, with different effects and the same reason.

3. Similar

Emphasize the correspondence between the former and the latter. Comparing similar objects, such as rocks and Gobi, thatch and grassland, waves and sea, will be more convincing.

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