Landscape Composition – Part 6: Depth

So far in my landscape photography series, I’ve talked about compositional elements, their weights and how to use their properties to balance the composition by imagining a balance of torques around the middle axis of an image. I also discussed balancing of negative space, the perception of subject direction and the need to separate elements. It’s time to finally (albeit perhaps temporarily) leave the long discussion of balance and element placement, and move on to talk about another important aspect of landscape photographs: depth.

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