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No limit to these skies

he sky can make or break a landscape photograph. Sometimes we’re treated to glorious cloud formations and vibrant colours, while in others, things can be frustratingly dull. But even when the heavens oblige, the photo may initially lack the ‘wow’ factor you expect. Sometimes this is down to the disparity in brightness between land and sky – skies are usually much brighter than the land below, so if we expose for the land then the sky can look

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