Image Essay # 7

Foreground, Middle ground, and Background. In our projects about texture, symmetry and gestalt we talked a little about foreground, middle ground and background. In our projects, the objects that were closer to us were darker because they were in the foreground. Objects that were in the middle were more of a medium tone, and goes for the background, it was the lightest. I think this picture portrays this. If you look at the trees and notice how close they are to us. Its almost as if you could touch them. We can pick out a lot of details, such as pattern of the bark on the tree, and even the tiny twigs and branches on the trees. We notice this because it is close to us, in the foreground. The next thing we notice is the frozen lake. Even tho the lake is not as close to us we can still pick out some detail but it is much more broad. We can notice that the lake is frozen because we can tell that there is snow on top of it. But we cannon pick out every single frozen wave, or every snow bank. The middle ground is still close to us but it is in the middle, hence the name. Finally the last thing we see is the very little strip of trees in the background. The trees in the background are very different than the trees in the foreground because of the simple face that we cannon see them as clear. We can tell they are trees and not houses because of their shape. What we cannot tell is what kind of trees they are. Objects in the background do not have much detail, they are more of a blur of objects and shapes. Also we notice the difference in color. We can tell that the trees in the foreground are white and gray, but the trees in the background all look pale and in a sense see through. The same goes for the sky. The part of the sky that is closest to us is a very pretty sky blue. As the sky progressed into the middle ground and the background it starts to dull out and again appears transparent.