Laanscapes

Fine-Art Landscape Photography

by

Daniel Laan

Professional landscape photographer from the Netherlands with a moody visual style, known for fantasy landscapes.

#1 World’s Top Landscape Photographer (One Eyeland 2021)
Black and White Photograph of the Year (ILPOTY 2022)
#2 World’s Top Landscape Photographer (One Eyeland 2023)
#2 World’s Top Landscape Photographer (One Eyeland 2024)

Recently I got asked: “What type of photography are you most known for?” Well, I don’t know about that. I’ve done so much photography over the last 15 to 20 years of my life, that it’s hard to imagine what type of work people like most.

And I don’t really care about that.
I’m creating from a place that’s fueled by internal motivations, not what “the people like”. You see, I’m not a social media influencer. Currently, I’m more into abstract intimate landscapes, simplicity and silent images that stand the test of time. I’m sure that’ll change again. Such is the way of the artist.

Latest work

Available Post-Processing Courses

My photos are processed using my unique approach to landscape photo editing in a combination of Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop. I use Luminosity Masking and a non-destructive workflow that I was actually trained in over the course of 25 years. So that means that II have used Photoshop longer than I actually photograph. I never stop learning, which is why I believe I have more than a few tricks to teach you in the digital darkroom.

In any of my post-processing video tutorials, I will teach you to actually use Photoshop in a correct way. Not opening several instances, not saving each layer dreading a crash, not history brushing - all these archaic approaches that people taught themselves are complete nonsense, as they do not embrace the way Photoshop is designed and has evolved. This is the way: