Here's another revised and enhanced version of a post from 2017.
A scene that catches your attention for painting could have so much going on in it that it has no clarity. Scenes found in historical cities often do that, but so do other subjects. The photo below
caught my eye as typical. The foreground monument wants attention, but is visually fused with the background structures.
Can it be given clarity? Let's find out.
First, let's look at what's confusing. It's what we call visual fusion where value contrasts of one image blend with those of an image behind it. Visually, those
values have fused the two images.
We can see clearly the background structure and the foreground statue each contain the same degree of value contrasts.
I've taken samples from the darkest darks and the lightest lights in each image, confirming how close the value contrast is in each.
To give that area visual clarity, we can reduce the contrasts in the background structure. The illustration below shows you what will happen. Look at it and notice to which set of squares your eye sees
first. The stronger a value contrast, the quicker the eye is drawn to it.
Applying that principle to this scene, even though I might have exaggerated a bit) here's what happens. By giving the back images a closer value contrast. we've taken out the fusion,
enabling us to have clarity between the image in front and the one behind it.
Enjoy a weekend of clarity!
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