Adventures in Photography

Sunday Stills-Focusing on the Foreground

This next challenge for October 16th is to focus on the foreground in your pictures. This is a way of composing a photograph with a strong visual in the bottom section of your picture. It’s a great way to create a dynamic landscape (IMHO). Try and get a fairly wide angled shot and maximize the depth of field so that everything is in focus. The foreground can be something small or something as large as a boulder but it should fit with the landscape your shooting.

I set out Saturday afternoon and shot a few frames……..and my battery died before I could get the light I wanted but here’s mine;

Here I was trying to lead the eye onward toward the badlands using the sidehill;

31 Responses

  1. I’ll be up Sunday morning-

    October 14, 2011 at 10:15 pm

  2. Mines up :)

    October 15, 2011 at 2:25 pm

  3. Thanks for the info!

    Mine up too, @
    http://firaszphotography.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/towards-himalayas/
    :)

    October 15, 2011 at 2:59 pm

  4. SHOULD be up at midnight PST, unless WordPress doesn’t behave.

    October 15, 2011 at 9:38 pm

  5. Mine is up!

    http://maggiescamera.wordpress.com/

    October 15, 2011 at 10:07 pm

  6. I am like my students, have no idea what to do, but I submit some work anyway hoping that Ed will be sympathetic.

    October 15, 2011 at 11:38 pm

  7. Mine will be up at about 5 after midnight. This was a great challenge. Learned a great deal and had a blast as well.

    http://wp.me/p1n5oG-sg

    Just Ramblin’

    October 15, 2011 at 11:50 pm

  8. Hi all

    am up again hand ‘n hand with nature :)
    http://www.henrygl.wordpress.com

    October 16, 2011 at 1:41 am

  9. Hi everyone, mine is up, just click the link below.

    Sunday Stills – Focus on the Foreground

    October 16, 2011 at 2:22 am

  10. Ed

    I’m up too..:-)

    October 16, 2011 at 2:27 am

  11. Mine’s up. This was hard but fun.
    http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunday-stillsfocusing-on-foreground.html

    October 16, 2011 at 6:30 am

  12. I’m back! Mine is up this morning.

    October 16, 2011 at 6:49 am

  13. Mine is up
    http://www.neitherherephotoblog.com/?p=1689

    October 16, 2011 at 7:36 am

  14. Here’s my photo for this week’s challenge:

    http://rav4adventures.blogspot.com/2011/10/fence-gate-and-foregroundsunday-stills.html

    October 16, 2011 at 8:05 am

  15. Here’s mine. Another trip around the Tellico countryside. :)

    October 16, 2011 at 8:19 am

  16. I’m up

    October 16, 2011 at 8:52 am

  17. Crystal

    Okay I made it this week.

    http://ranchriding.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunday-stills-focusing-on-foreground.html

    October 16, 2011 at 9:31 am

  18. Janice

    I made it.

    October 16, 2011 at 1:35 pm

  19. Mine are up and then some. Wet and cold but better shots than I had before this morning!

    http://mtwaggin.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunday-walk-and-sunday-stills-focusing.html

    October 16, 2011 at 1:50 pm

  20. Mine is up (better late than never)
    http://ctgponies.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunday-stills-focusing-on-foreground.html

    October 16, 2011 at 3:36 pm

  21. sorry I’m so late………….mine are up.

    October 16, 2011 at 7:19 pm

  22. I posted late last night and then forgot to post here. I really enjoyed this challenge.

    October 17, 2011 at 8:49 am

  23. I never got around to posting last week’s challenge but my Focus fotos are up. See here: http://fantastykvoyage.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunday-stills-101611-focus-on.html

    October 18, 2011 at 12:06 am

  24. Here’s mine from Monument Valley~~

    http://desertswest.blogspot.com/2011/10/monument-valleysunday-stills.html

    October 23, 2011 at 6:52 pm

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