Photography Tips: Landscapes

If you’re shooting a sunset landscape vista, then the subject will depend on the story you’re trying to tell with this picture.

If the foreground is interesting, you may want to make that the subject. Likewise with the background.

But you can also feature both if your foreground subject has a nice silhouette. In this scenario, you would only need to make sure that the background is perfectly exposed, which will likely have beautiful golden or crimson clouds lit by the setting sun, and the foreground will just be underexposed to reveal an interesting silhouette. Again, the light ratio (background being much brighter than foreground) allows this to happen.