The Landscape Photography Book

Lighting Your Foreground Landscape, Method 1

This one might either be the hardest or easiest method depending on your personal level of patience. This first method has you getting to your location before dusk, setting up all your gear, getting your image composed, and once sunset arrives, but there’s a still a little light from the recently setting sun on your landscape, you take a few shots. That way, you’ve captured the foreground while it’s dimly lit (you don’t want to have a brightly lit landscape foreground, and then stick a dark Milky Way above it—that will look like . . . well . . . it won’t look awesome and that’s being kind. Instead, ...