The key to striking landscape photographs in my opinion is to use a formula that I call the 'classic landscape technique'. It has four aspects: (1) Use a wide angle lens (24mm or wider on a full frame sensor camera or 16mm or wider on a cropped sensor camera), (2) use complete depth of field, i.e. f/22 or f/32, (3) place the camera between two and six feet from the foreground, and (4) find a foreground that is interesting/artistic/attractively graphic, etc. I took this picture from Hunt's Mesa in Monument Valley with a Canon 14mm lens at f/22 and 200 ISO from a tripod at sunset.
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Jun 11, 2015, 4:44:22 PM
Mike - It would have been great if you'd kissed the foreground with just enough light to add a bit of interest to the mesquite in the foreground. Other than that I love this image.