Emphasize Yellow Foreground

© Roxie Guilhamet

Emphasize Yellow Foreground

Uploaded: May 14, 2013

Description

Get low and close to emphasize the foreground flowers. Lie down in them!


Comments

Roxie Guilhamet level-classic May 14, 2013

This composition is a good example of a line leading to your subject, but I would not title it "Warm foreground and cool background." Your foreground and background are the same color!

You could have increased the yellow in the foreground by lying down in it to emphasize it. Or you could have gotten close enough to touch the red water wheel spokes and used it as the foreground with the cows in the background. In your other shot of this scene, the shed and water wheel are still too far away to be a foreground, but I increased the yellow up front, as if you'd shot lower and closer to the flowers. See the added depth?

The cows are good. They draw us into the background and give your composition depth by their diminished size. We know a cow is really bigger than they look here, compared to the shed, so because they are small our brain tells us that they must be far away—depth.

See how there are no shadows? That means there was no direct sunlight. There must have been clouds in front of the sun acting as a big diffuser. Call it Overcast. Take good note of this. As long as you avoid the sky, as you avoided it here, overcast skies give you beautiful light for scenes. It is because you included the bright cloudy sky last week that you lost all the colors.
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