| After pointers on portraits, I believe most | | | | you have a professional looking and composed image |
| photographers need and want landscape | | | | of spectacular clouds! |
| photography tips. Where to place the horizon is so | | | | This works for buildings or mountains, too! - Does |
| crucial to landscape photography, yet looking at most | | | | your image consist mostly of buildings? Try this rule |
| images, photographers don't apply basic rules. | | | | on them, too. Make the buildings 2/3rds of the frame |
| The 1/3rd 2/3rds Landscape Rule - Not everyone | | | | and the sky 1/3rd. This gives a nice composition that |
| photographs people only. | | | | can accentuate exactly what you want and makes it |
| So, how to compose a beautiful landscape that will | | | | pleasing to the eyes. Mountains and trees follow this |
| make the viewers want to go there or at least | | | | rule, too. |
| admire your photograph? | | | | Lastly, consider your depth of field when |
| Place your horizon line in either the lower or upper | | | | photographing a landscape. |
| horizontal third of the frame. This rule accentuates | | | | For most landscapes photos a large depth of field is |
| either the sky or the land and gives a pleasing weight | | | | required and desired to keep all of the elements as |
| to either. Most photographers make the mistake of | | | | sharply in focus as possible. So, one way to achieve |
| bisecting the horizon exactly in the middle, which is so | | | | this with a point-and-shoot camera is to adjust your |
| boring to the eye that all of the energy of the scene | | | | ISO, thus requiring less light and increasing the f stop |
| is lost and the viewer loses interest and moves on. | | | | which increases the depth of field. |
| The 7/8 1/8 Landscape Rule for greater impact - | | | | Or on a DSLR just adjusting the f-stop to a larger |
| Whenever you want to emphasize your land or sky | | | | number will increase the depth of field, too. Do you |
| to a greater degree, try this landscape photography | | | | get the shakes? Try a tripod or bracing yourself |
| tip, place the horizon either very low in the frame, | | | | against a rock or tree to ensure rock steady photos |
| say about an 1/8 of the way down which leaves a | | | | that have no blur or camera shake in them. Try |
| massive amount of sky in the frame. For example, a | | | | these landscape photography tips to create |
| day when you have beautiful white puffy clouds | | | | photographs that will impress your closest friends and |
| sailing across the sky. You don't need to show the | | | | relatives. |
| ground, or much of it. So, show mostly clouds and | | | | |