Split focus shots, often referred to as " di-opt ", are used by De Palma to emphasize the foreground person / object while simultaneously keeping a background person / object in focus.

Later analyses have pointed out that these are the modes most susceptible to foreground contamination from synchrotron, dust, and free-free emission, and from experimental uncertainty in the monopole and dipole.

The isolated figure of Hamlet reclines in the dark foreground, while behind a Scrim ( material ) | gauze the rest of the court are absorbed in a bright, unified golden pyramid emanating from Claudius.

Anglo-Welsh longbowmen figure prominently in the foreground on the right, where they are driving away Italian mercenary crossbow men.

The top of the hill and the whole of the south and east sides are covered with enormous pines whose dark green is enhanced by a pleasant foreground of cabbage palms and banana trees, and I also observed a low bush among them the fruit of which resembles our red currants but is much larger and hangs in purple and red clusters that help to give the whole a gay appearance.

In the left foreground is Leipziger Platz, while in the right foreground are parts of the Sony and Beisheim Centers.

In the foreground are more amorphous blue shadows, the counterparts of the fall trees in the background.

A mid-18th century etching of the Palazzo del Quirinale by Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The colossal Roman " Horse Tamers " or Dioscuri are in the foreground, but the obelisk from the Mausoleum of Augustus ( erected 1781-1786 ) has not yet been set up between them.

The black units in the foreground are Symmetricom ( formerly Sigma-Tau ) MHM-2010 hydrogen maser standards.

Where a miniature appears in the foreground of a shot, this is often very close to the camera lens — for example when matte painted backgrounds are used.

The painted figures of Caterina Visconti | Caterina and Gian Galeazzo are shown kneeling in the foreground in this missal by Anovelo da Imbonate.

There are a number of demountables in the foreground.

But in subsequent works, such as The Happiness of Loving My Brunette ( 1925 ) and Painting ( Fratellini ) ( 1927 ), there are far fewer foreground figures, and those that remain simplified.

The relief is mostly in stiacciato, while the foreground figures are done in bas-relief.

The trees in foreground are Acacia.

The title track sequence, filmed in black-and-white, is arguably one of the prime archetypes of the modern performance-style music video, employing rhythmic cross-cutting, contrasting long shots and close-ups, and unusual shots and camera angles, such as the shot near the end of the song, in which George Harrison's left hand and the neck of his guitar are seen in sharp focus in the foreground while the completely out-of-focus figure of John Lennon sings in the background.

He argues that the book's hallmarks are its restraint, brevity and readability, which downplays the extravagant and mythical aspects of the disaster and instead puts in the foreground the stories of the people on the ship.

There are some leaves, some tree trunks, and, in the background, a river in which a chemise-wearing woman bathes ; in the foreground, two young men are seated across from a second woman who has just exited the water and who dries her naked skin in the open air.

In the foreground are the rest of his family: Mary, Tom, Charlotte ( Lottie ), Docia, Hannah Davis

The Whitewater River is in the foreground, and Roberts Park Grandstand and Race Track are at the bottom right.

The Arlington House and Granger Store are in the foreground.

The fireship's sails are visible to the rear ; in foreground, the fireship's crew make their escape in a lifeboat, with their commander Constantine Kanaris at the helm.

Shell midden is in foreground, Horizon Hill is in background.

Image: HKWanchaiwaterfront. jpg | A view of Wanchai waterfront with Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in the foreground and Central Plaza behind it, August 2005

Ophrys apifera in the foreground growing on a grass verge at The Metro Centre, Gateshead.

The Catford Cat, a giant fibreglass sculpture of a black cat above the entrance to the Catford Centre, with the Village Green and Water Pump shown in the foreground

St Thomas's Church, Greetland with the Community Centre playground in the foreground.

The Old Bull Ring Centre with bull mural, with markets in the foreground, and Rotunda in the background

Toronto-Dominion Centre as seen from King and Bay Streets, with the banking pavilion in the centre foreground

The Empress State Building as seen from outside West Brompton station, with Earls Court Exhibition Centre | Earls Court Two in the foreground.

This photograph shows the Ang Mo Kio Town Centre in the foreground, and nearby HDB blocks in the background.

The Fitzgerald Building ( foreground ) and the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

Looking across Banksmeadow from Eastgardens Shopping Centre, with Botany Athletic Centre in the foreground

alt = In an array of earthen colors, a black silhouetted horned figure to the left foreground presides over and addresses a large circle of a tightly packed group of wide-eyed intense, scary, elderly and unruly women.

The Hotel Fürstenhof is in the left foreground while the brightly illuminated building in the distance is Europahaus, opposite the Anhalter Bahnhof.

Just retired president Éamon de Valera, in his last public engagement of a fifty-six year political career, sits on the extreme left ( foreground ) of the picture.

The Chief of Staff Gen. Shaul Mofaz ( right foreground ) meets with U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( left ), and other senior U. S. Department of Defense officials in the Pentagon

Francisco Goya's La Cometa, depicting a ( foreground left ) man smoking an early quasi-cigarette.

The white tower in the foreground is part of University Center, and everything to its left and right is part of UCI.

In the foreground, he has grouped the leading statesmen from the Lords: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 ), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 ) and the Whiggy ( British political faction ) | Whigs on the left ; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ) and the Tories ( political faction ) | Tories on the right.

Four kings: Edward VII ( far right ), his son George, Prince of Wales, later George V ( far left ), and grandsons Edward, later Edward VIII ( rear ), and Albert, later George VI ( foreground ), c. 1908.

Maulana Azad, Sardar Patel ( third from left, in the foreground ), and other Congressmen at Wardha

The statue of Herbert Ingram is in the left foreground.

Another of great influence was Ni Zan ( 1301 – 1374 ), who frequently arranged his compositions with a strong and distinct foreground and background, but left the middle-ground as an empty expanse.

In the foreground is Copenhagen Airport on the island Amager, to the left of the bridge is the Danish island Saltholm, and in the background the bridge connects to Malmö.

North is on the left of the image, and Table Mountain is in the foreground at the northern end of the peninsula.

Five Points intersection painted by George Catlin in 1827 ; the triangular building in the center is located on what would be known as " Paradise Square ", Anthony Street veers off on right, Cross Street on the left and Orange Street runs left to right in foreground

The Temple is in the foreground centre left with Solomon's Throne behind.

Big Lake ( the curved area in the upper left ) on June 15, 2011 during the 2011 Missouri River floods with the Missouri River in the foreground.

A merry-go-round is in the foreground to the left, and several skyscrapers stand in the background.

The scene of the police shooting parrots in the bush skillfully positions the shooter in the middle ground to the left of the image, firing upwards toward the far right, with the gang watching him from close foreground.

The structure with three roof tents in foreground left is the original detached belfry of the Trinity Church, not drawn to scale.

John Bunyan's tomb ( foreground ) with a memorial to Daniel Defoe ( obelisk, left ) and Willam Blake's grave ( right ) in background.