Visual Separation: A Key Concept in Portrait and Landscape Work

Thomas Chu Photo

Have you ever run into this problem: the scenery is clearly beautiful, yet the photo you take has no beauty at all — the frame is a tangled mess with chaotic layers?

Then you need to pay attention to a concept that matters in both portrait and landscape photography: visual separation!

Photography is about cutting a moment of order out of a chaotic world. The concept of visual separation has a major impact on both shooting and post-processing.

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