Of course it's best to go out at golden hour or blue hour when the light from a sunset/sundown gives direction and color. I took a photo of downtown St Petersburg Florida a few years ago. Shooting west into the sunset. No clouds at all. So I positioned my self so the sun was behind a building and used a graduated filter to bring down the sky. I kept going until after the sunset and got the city lights and blue in the twilight sky in the background.
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Yes, but it sounds like you know what you are doing {smile} .... I a novice but having fun, thanks to Steemit. Forces me to think about colors and textures etc. Earlier I was playing around with trying a 'minimalist' photo ... far more difficult than appears. I will post it sometime later...'Winnie the Poo' will be the title
I am just beginning too. But that is how it works. Continuously learning. Going out and trying things. See how it works and think about what you could do better. When it comes to landscape photos you only have control of a few factors. The light and weather that gives that extra drama is out of our control. Sometimes it is just luck. And taking a lot of pictures and deleting the bad ones. That is the best thing about digital is it costs nothing to take a shot. Yes minimalism can be tough. I like abstract shapes and colors. I heard a photography teacher say that photography is a subtractive art. With painting you start with a blank canvas and add paint to it. With photography we start with the whole world and subtract everything but our frame in the camera.