asterisk8 said:

Darth Lars said:

A background element should never have better focus than the foreground.

You can find many, many examples in cinema where the background is in focus while the foreground is not, or the background is equally in focus as the foreground. It has to do with depth of field and focal length...

I think it's clear what Darth Lars was getting at. That shot doesn't work yet because the transports don't look like they're in the background. Yes, we know they are, but they don't look it. It needs either haze or blur or some of both. Obviously there are shots where the foreground is out of focus and we're look at the background, or the depth of field is crushed, or you can have both equally in focus - in fact a split dioptre was a great way of drawing your attention to both at the same time - but I know what Darth Lars was meaning in relation to this shot.