The Decisive Foreground
There is a card in this deck called Backgrounds First — the practice of choosing your background before your subject, then waiting for the right element to walk in. This card is the opposite approach.
The decisive foreground uses a close element — an object, a body part, a texture, a structural feature — as the primary compositional device in the frame. The foreground is chosen first. It obscures, frames, or comments on what is happening behind it.
Wide to standard (28–50mm) for maximum foreground-to-background relationship. Smaller aperture (f/5.6–f/8) to keep foreground legible.
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