Shooting foreground and background relationships

Ben Long: So we've been looking at layers and how different layers in the world can be…compressed into a flat two-dimensional image.…This class is going to do the same thing.…They've been tasked with going out and trying to take pictures that show a…relationship between foreground and background objects that doesn't actually…exist in the real world.…This is very much like what we've been exploring in our layers discussions…about how something in the foreground can be made to intersect with or stand…next to something in the background. In a way that you don't really see, there are…a lot of things that indicate depth to the human eye.…

There is scale--things in the distance seems smaller.…There is depth cueing that comes in the form of light falloff.…Things in the distance maybe have a different type of light on them.…These are all things that your brain does a masterful job of sorting out so…that you understand the 3D world that you live in.…We are asking these students to short- circuit that entire process, to try to…