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Night Photo Summit 2025: Virtual event for night photography!

We are super excited to announce the fifth annual Night Photo Summit! I will be offering a presentation on “how to “Creating Compelling Foregrounds with Light Painting.” Night Photo Summit 2025. Ken Lee “Creating Compelling Foregrounds with Night Painting” www.npsummit.live/ken What is it? National Parks at Night holds night photography workshops that provide top-shelf education both in the…

Night Photo Summit 2025: Virtual event for night photography!

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How to Take Great Nature Photos: Use Interesting Foregrounds

How to Take Great Nature Photos: Use Interesting Foregrounds discusses the importance of foregrounds in nature photography. It gives several examples of how to use the foreground to add depth and interest in your shots.

Colorful Sunrise Awhile back we discussed the use of a good background in our photos to give them more depth and keep them interesting. Today we are going to discuss the use of foregrounds. The foreground is a part of the photo that people often overlook. The focus is obviously on the main subject, and the background is easily noticeable behind that subject, but the foreground can easily be…

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How to Take Great Nature Photos: Watch Your Foregrounds and Backgrounds

How to Take Great Nature Photos: Watch Your Foregrounds and Backgrounds discusses several ways to improve photographic images by using foregrounds and backgrounds that complement the main subject.

Mac’s Eyes Black and White Last week we discussed using the rule of thirds when taking nature photos. The rule of thirds is just one of a number of composition rules that help lead to better pictures. Today I want to move away from “rules” per se and talk about the components of an image, particularly the foreground and background. Most photos are made up of three parts, the main subject, the…

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Improving on background and foreground

Backgrounds can be tricky when you consciously think about them. In the usual spirit of simple doodle and laziness, I sometimes don’t bother with them much. But sometimes you want more scenery to set the mood and to challenge yourself. And that can be easier said than done!

Take this picture from a year ago (yikes).... For some reason, I reeeally liked just plopping stuff down with the glaze brush. Not to mention the color combinations and the muddy, grayish shading. In terms of color and shape, the end result turned out to be very cluttered and confusing. 

Read on to see the cringe :)

And check out the ground the witchy alligators were standing on! These were days before I took advantage of selection tools that could’ve helped with shading sections more precisely. You could kind of tell that I drew the creatures first before laying down the background area. 

A better approach to this would have been to have more space and less globs of color in the lower, “reality” part of the picture with the one girl excitedly describing her zany idea. Empty background spaces allow for breathing room and add contrast to the more “noisy” parts of the picture. 

Also, let’s not talk about the color choice of my barely-legible signature during these dark times. Also influenced by the background noisiness. I might just redraw this in the future... ;) 

On the bright side, I did some better work on background-foreground balance on this picture (drawn about a month prior to the above):

I was still pretty glaze-brush-happy, but the blurriness of the train in motion made more sense and the subject popped more clearly. Still had that weird signature/placement though. 

Having less detail on the flooring also drew attention to the legs! The moving train could’ve done without the extra lines though. The blurriness should have been enough to show it in motion. 

Speaking of lines, these days I kind of flip-flop with whether or not I want my backgrounds to have some sort of line-art to them or not, and how I shade the background vs. how I shade foreground objects.

Backgrounds and foregrounds should compliment each other. While it definitely helps to have some difference in technique so that the foreground pops more, I’m not too fond of having them be so different that the foreground looks like a cut-out slapped onto the picture. But, whoo boy, did I experiment quite a bit before realizing that!

So over the years of pulling my hair out while figuring out a set style and how to showcase it in both the foreground and background, here’s some stuff I’ve gravitated towards.

Background lines are less distinct and maybe more muted than foreground lines.

Alternatively, don’t put lines in the background art at all.

Simpler details, textures, and shading than what’s in the foreground

Some negative space is your friend

A nice overlay can soften harsh contrasts between background and foreground color-schemes.

Block out background stuff before drawing the foreground stuff! This makes for easier scaling and less of a headache!

Also check out one of my latest digital doodles for some cathartic progress and eyebleach(?) Apologies to those who don’t like insects that much. 0w0

This time, I didn’t go reckless/ham with the glaze brush. Subtle background choices make the mango and fly pop while indicating light direction. The mango, being the bigger/fruity piece still gets texture/shading done to it. But I decided to focus my line art efforts on the fly to distinguish it as the main “character” of this piece. 

And yay, no more cringe-y signature!

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