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The Photographer's Eye: Graphic Guide
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The Photographer's Eye: Graphic Guide

by Michael Freeman
November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
192 pages
4h 8m
English
Routledge
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COLOR-WASH FOREGROUND

Blurred flowing color behind the subject you focus on may be the most common way of doing this effect, but something very similar is possible with an out-of-focus foreground. The shooting style, however, is quite different and not so obvious. It involves shooting through gaps or around the edges of a colorful subject close to the camera, while focusing on something distant. And it also means keeping the blurred colors of the foreground dominant, so this is not a natural shooting technique. Here, the location was Fatahillah Square on a busy weekend in Jakarta, Indonesia, and I was looking for ways of shooting the sidewalk food stalls—people at tables and the vendors with their bright mobile carts, each with glass cases full ...

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