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Creating a more powerful foreground-to-background relationship

Creating a more powerful foreground-to-background relationship - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a more powerful foreground-to-background relationship

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- (water rushes noisily) - Now, while I was hand-holding to compose, I found a very powerful rapid that I think is gonna make a excellent foreground. This is gonna lead us into our second type of wide-angle shot. The first one we just did was a serene overview. This is an in-your-face, foreground-to-background relationship image. It's a more powerful image in a way. But that's not to take away from the previous image. I love to approach both images in every scene and decide later which one works for me. This particular rapid here is firing off one rock, bouncing off another, back into the creek. It's got what ... It's called Finger Falls. It's got little ribbons within itself. It's gonna be a really great foreground. Now, as I position my tripod in here, I'm gonna be very close to the foreground, which means my aperture is gonna go from F11 to F16, to give me that extra depth of field so that everything's tack sharp, front to back. Let's go ahead and get into position. Now, I wanna be…

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