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The Digital Photography Book
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The Digital Photography Book

by Scott Kelby
June 2020
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
7h 37m
English
Rocky Nook
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Where to Put the Horizon Line

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LOCATION: MONUMENT VALLEY NAVAJO TRIBAL PARK, MONUMENT VALLEY, UTAH

The answer to this one is pretty easy: don’t take the amateur route and place your horizon in the dead center of the photo, or your landscape shots will always look like snapshots. Instead, there’s an easy rule we go by: If you have a great-looking sky, put your horizon one-third of the way from the bottom of your photo or lower to show more of the sky. If you have a boring, cloudless sky, hide it. We’d use the rule of thirds compositional method here, by mentally dividing the image into thirds, so when we compose the shot the land takes up 2/3 of ...

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