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I fucking love shooting stuff innawoods. The single thing I've learned is that it's bloody hard to separate a subject without doing the wide open depth-of-field cliche. Try to remove everything that's not part of your composition.
As an example, this picture is near focused (the ground is angled up and away) so that many of the pine needles aren't in focus, and the sides are distracting. The roots have a pleasing shape which in combination of the needles that are in focus made this the sole keeper of its roll. (posted previously in either a RPT or a /fgt/.)