The Decisive Foreground

There is a card in this deck called Backgrounds First — the practice of choosing your background before your subject, then waiting for the right element to walk in. This card is the opposite approach.

The decisive foreground uses a close element — an object, a body part, a texture, a structural feature — as the primary compositional device in the frame. The foreground is chosen first. It obscures, frames, or comments on what is happening behind it.