Foreground, Middleground and Background!
BURИBLUE on Flickr
I found a great tip for landscape photography that sounds so logical and so simple but yet many of us do not realize. While composing a landscape photograph, try to incorporate 3 aspects into the photo. A foreground, middle ground and a background.
Take the great photo above by BURИBLUE for example, the foreground are the rocky beach. The middleground is the sea and the background will be the sky. Sounds simple doesn’t it?
Another example would be while capturing sunset shots by the sea side, let the water be the foreground. And if possible, find a nice silhouette of a boat for the middle ground and leave the sunset sky as the background.
Looking back at my photos, I seem to have missed out the foreground in 90% of my landscape shots. The foreground is something many amateurs will tend to forget while photographing a landscape.
More resources:
- Photodoto - Learning composition: foreground, middleground, background
- Outdoor Photographer - 20 Landscape photography tips
Give this composition tip a try the next time you capture a landscape. Show us your results in the comments or send it in to us!
