Photo Review

Adding depth to landscape photographs

Translating a three-dimensional scene into a two-dimensional photograph with any sense of depth can be a challenge. In this feature we look at a few tried-and-proven techniques that can help you to achieve this objective as well as strategies that are available in post-capture editing to enhance impressions of depth.

Unless you know what parameters to manipulate, it's hard to decide which parts of an image to work on and how to adjust them. To learn how to recognise visual depth cues, check out the box on the opposite page.

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