Where to Put the Horizon Line
This is a key composition decision, but luckily we have a guideline that helps make this decision fairly easy—use a part of the Rule of Thirds composition concept, which works perfectly for landscape images. Start with this thought: generally, the worst possible place for you to place the horizon line in your image would be in the center. Now, that’s not just for horizon lines—in general, dead center is dead boring—but it’s particularly lame and average for horizon lines. So, where would be a more interesting place to position the horizon line in your image? Using the Rule of Thirds concept, it would be to position ...
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