Research - Composing Landscape Photographs

I am reading a Landscape Photography MagBook to learn how to capture landscapes in the most effective way possible.

Top tips for Composition:

1. Rule of Thirds
2. Foreground interest
3. Lead-in lines
4. Layers and planes
5. Natural frames
6. Viewpoints

Foreground interest, lead-in lines and layers and planes contribute to depth. This is very important in landscape photography. Many landscape photographs fail because a two dimensional image cannot compare to the real, three dimensional scene. The aforementioned compositional techniques can create a sense of depth within a photograph, which helps the viewer to emerge themselves in the scene.

The MagBook also points out that there are times when artistic licence must be used and rules broken. The example given is when shooting a scene containing a reflection. Sometimes placing the horizon of the water along the centre of the photograph and therefore balancing the scene will give the most pleasing results.