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Understanding how to compose with an empty sky

Understanding how to compose with an empty sky

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Understanding how to compose with an empty sky

- Landscape shooting requires a lot of planning. You got to find the place you want to go, you got to pick a window of availability, you got to travel a bunch. And it's not like normal vacation planning, because, most of the time when I'm planning on going on a landscape shoot, particularly out into the desert or open wilderness area, I'm really, really hoping for bad weather. I really want storms blowing through, horrible, catastrophic monsoons and things like that, because blue sky is just so boring. There's nothing I can do with it compositionally. And most of the time, you come out to the desert and this is what you get. It's just searing sun and an emptyless sky. So what do you do with it? Well, for a while, blue sky can actually be kind of interesting, and there are times, of course, when shooting with this sky is fine, particularly at sunset when it's changing colors very dramatically. But here, the light has turned in my favor but the sky is still pretty boring. I got this…

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