Foreground interest
The layered look
For other examples:
Henri Cartier-Bresson p. 11
Joel Sternfeld p. 68
Landscape photographers are especially picky. They don’t simply plonk their tripods anywhere. They hunt around for just the right spot. And it’s not a case of around about here will do, it’s a case of exactly here.
In this image by Edward Burtynsky the subject is a rusting container ship. But the composition has a few more layers to it than that. Look at the textured mud in the very foreground, which leads us into the reflection and then up to the subject. This foreground mud isn’t there by chance. Burtynsky positioned himself to make this ...
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