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  • noun The point between foreground and background in an image

Etymologies

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mid- +‎ ground

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Examples

  • Foreground montane forest disturbed by clearance for grazing; midground rocky screes inhositable to trees; background the densely forested slopes of Volcan Baru, Panama.

    Talamancan montane forests 2010

  • Three times I can remember it: the ending tunnel silhouette in "The Third Man," falling rubble jarringly breaking up a scene (by splicing the foreground and midground) in of all things "Duck Soup," and noticing a borrowed composition from "La Dolce Vida" (namely, a long shot where multiple people were running and the camera followed them) showing up in "Little Miss Sunshine."

    Reverse Storyboarding James Gurney 2009

  • Shoot from the stands to have the batter in the lower foreground with the pitcher in the upper midground.

    How to shoot baseball and softball 2006

  • Shoot from the stands to have the batter in the lower foreground with the pitcher in the upper midground.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • She considered the kitchen and looked out the breakfast window, where, in the midground, the orchard stood in half-bloom.

    The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

  • She considered the kitchen and looked out the breakfast window, where, in the midground, the orchard stood in half-bloom.

    The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

  • Sykes's battalion of regulars, which has been at our left, now steadily moves obliquely across the field of battle toward our right, to a hill in the midground, which it occupies, and, with the aid of Arnold's Battery and Palmer's Cavalry, holds, while the exhausted and disorganized troops of the Union Army doggedly and slowly retire toward

    The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3 John Alexander Logan 1856

  • Sykes's battalion of regulars, which has been at our left, now steadily moves obliquely across the field of battle toward our right, to a hill in the midground, which it occupies, and, with the aid of Arnold's Battery and Palmer's Cavalry, holds, while the exhausted and disorganized troops of the Union Army doggedly and slowly retire toward

    The Great Conspiracy, Complete John Alexander Logan 1856

  • In the midground another de rodillas; el de doña Inés en two tombs in a suitable form, and in el centro, y su estatua de pie. the background and on an elevated

    Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

  • Work by: Julia Pfaff in the foreground, Jeanne Drevas in the midground

    RVABlogs 2010

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