Daytime Landscape
Characteristics of this type of shot: Daytime landscape where the sky is the focus of the shot.
Ingredients: Four things make this simple shot work: (1) It has wonderful balance. The shack on the left, with its strong simple shape and colors, balances wonderfully and diagonally with the clouds in the top right, and that sense of balance really gives the shot its cohesiveness. (2) Outside of the shack, the foreground is otherwise uninteresting. Minimizing the amount of it you see is the way to go compositionally, so the horizon line is very low in the shot, emphasizing the sky and those great clouds (though, the streak of clouds ...
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