Photography tips

Perspective

View through a shaded passage towards the Lucerne Water Tower

Key tips

  1. Look for architectural details like a railing to use as a natural perspective framing your main subject.
  2. Pay attention to perspective by positioning your subject against a clean background like the clear sky.
  3. Find perspective: Choose a viewpoint that uses a calm element like the cloudless sky as a background to isolate the subject.

Photographs on this topic

25 photographs with tips

The exact camera settings for each shot are shown below it - a starting point for recreating the look yourself. Click through to a photograph for detailed photography tips on that specific shot, under "Photography tips for this image".

All subjects Architecture Landscape City Mountains Lucerne Central Switzerland Pilatus Lake Lucerne
Detailed view of the rock formations and summits of Mount Pilatus in clear weather 400 mm · f/10 · 1/500 s · ISO 200 Palm frond in the foreground with Mount Pilatus in the background 156 mm · f/20 · 1/640 s · ISO 200 Red aerial cableway gondolas towards Mount Pilatus above a summer meadow with flowers 19 mm · f/18 · 1/100 s · ISO 200 Yellow mountain flowers in the foreground with the steep slopes of Mount Pilatus and Lake Lucerne in the background. 28 mm · f/32 · 1/80 s · ISO 640 White cherry blossoms in the foreground in front of the blurred Pilatus mountain massif 150 mm · f/22 · 1/250 s · ISO 500 A small snowman made of snow on top of Mount Pilatus overlooking the Swiss plateau 40 mm · f/20 · 1/100 s · ISO 200 Red cable car cabin passing through a snowy pine forest on Mount Pilatus 45 mm · f/8 · 1/1000 s · ISO 500 Steep snow-covered rock face on Mount Pilatus overlooking misty forests 111 mm · f/9 · 1/250 s · ISO 200 Red cable car of the Pilatus mountain railways over a snow-covered rock formation in fog 74 mm · f/8 · 1/400 s · ISO 200 Snowy rock ridge at Pilatus with approaching fog 45 mm · f/11 · 1/100 s · ISO 200 Aerial cableway pylon on the rocky slope of Mount Pilatus, surrounded by clouds and fog. 45 mm · f/16 · 1/100 s · ISO 200 View of the Milky Way and starry sky over the Pilatus mountains at night. 12 mm · f/2 · 10 s · ISO 3200 Aerial view of a small chapel on a green mountain ridge near Mount Pilatus 45 mm · f/8 · 1/125 s · ISO 200 View of the chapel on the steep ridge at Mount Pilatus 45 mm · f/7.1 · 1/100 s · ISO 200 View through a rock opening onto the snow-covered summit region of Mount Pilatus 15 mm · f/5.6 · 1/400 s · ISO 100 View through a rock opening of the summit station and Mount Pilatus in winter 19 mm · f/5.6 · 1/640 s · ISO 100 Snow-covered tree branch in the foreground with Mount Pilatus in the background at dusk. 35 mm · f/6.3 · 1/25 s · ISO 800 A blue and white Rigi rack railway train stands on the tracks in front of a station. 22 mm · f/8 · 1/2000 s · ISO 400 View through a hole in the rock looking down at the small chapel below the Pilatus massif in Central Switzerland 22 mm · f/3.2 · 1/2000 s · ISO 400 Aerial view of the Pilatus chapel with hiking trail in Central Switzerland 177 mm · f/6.3 · 1/640 s · ISO 500 Aerial view of the chapel on Mount Pilatus near Lucerne 265 mm · f/6.3 · 1/1250 s · ISO 1000 Red cable car gondola at Mount Pilatus in front of steep rock 128 mm · f/9 · 1/640 s · ISO 400 View from a dark rock opening towards the snow-covered Pilatus chapel in bright daylight. 46 mm · f/8 · 1/200 s · ISO 100 The Pilatus chapel nestled in rock walls and fog seen from above 130 mm · f/6.3 · 1/250 s · ISO 250

Related topics

  • Architecture
  • Landscape
  • City
  • Mountains
  • Light
  • Camera settings
  • Perspective
  • Composition
  • Lucerne
  • Central Switzerland
  • Pilatus
  • Lake Lucerne
  • Evening light
  • Snow
  • Rain
  • Sunset
  • Night
  • Fog
  • Blue hour
← All photography tips