The Landscape Photography Book

Mountains as Backgrounds

If you don’t want to make the mountains your foreground, try making them your background. They make awesome background elements with other things in the foreground. For example, that old barn that everybody shoots up in Wyoming with a line of mountains in the background. The reason everybody shoots it is, it’s almost too perfect. You have an interesting, timeless old barn (which has an interesting shape itself), and then you have this beautiful mountain range behind it that takes the image to a whole different level. Photo of an old barn in good light? Eight out of 10. Some beautiful clouds show up? Nine out of 10. Put ...