Photoshop Practice #2

I love seeing an eye-catching landscape on IG. So I ask myself:

What makes a good landscape photo?
Is it composition, or subject or is it the time of day?
Is it my camera settings, my exposure, filters, lenses?
So there are compositions that are confusing because there’s no subject to ground the image, the setting and time of day. Right, so I should stop taking snapshots, find a focal point, buy a wide angle lens and get close to a subject. Try to go beyond a snapshot obviously, but unless you’ve been staking out a spot, that’s hard to do. Take a photo regardless, see if you can pull something out of it later. Try to remember what you saw and how you experienced the colors and the light.
I would like to start doing focus stacks, or exposure stacks, and merge all those images in PS. That’ll be fun.

Below for an After>Before Image

This was when Logan and I touched down on the Washington coast back in 2018.