ASSIGNMENT 49
Layers
ASSIGNMENT
Keep the viewer’s interest by adding layers to your composition. Layering can be simple or complex. If this is a new way of seeing for you, start with two subjects overlapping, and then experiment.
TECHNIQUE
There are really no rules to using layers. The point is for the eyes of the viewer to travel from one subject to the next and possibly to the one after that. It’s all about visual exploration. There should be a foreground, a middleground, and a background. Naturally, the foreground will be the subject closest to you. It may be extremely close, even partially cut off. The middle element will often be the main subject. The background is the subject located the farthest away in the frame. It doesn’t even have ...
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