Empty sky ?

Often photographers encounter the problem of empty sky, where there are plenty of stuff in the lower areas of the frame, but nothing much in the upper part to balance it. One way to solve the problem is to put (either by darkroom techniques or digital image manipulations) something what will bring the balance and will not look too unnatural at the same time.

The picture of golden apeldoorn tulips was taken with a 28mm wide-angle lens on my 35mm Pentax camera. There was a flare in the original image which resulted from reflected sunlight. The full moon (taken with a 200mm telephoto lens) covered that defect and added an element of interest in an otherwise empty sky.

You can build your own library of such objects, including images of sun, different phases of moon, birds, kites (not birds), balloons, rainbow, fireworks, formations of clouds, and so on. The picture above shows the skyline of the city of Seattle with a separate image of rainbow added. The one below is a shot of Mount Rainier where the sky was completely blank. So I added a backdrop of clouds to make it more interesting.

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