Fantasy Forest Bundle
This video bundle is for you if you can’t get enough of tree and forest photography, but struggle to get great pictures. Let me help you see the forest for the trees.
2 Tutorials in this bundle
4 Season in the Dark Forest
Return to the Dark Forest
Woodland E-book
An all-encompassing photographic journey through creating your own forest fairy tales!
“Woodland” is my second E-Book in which I take you on a digital workshop where no secrets are held back. This is my complete forest photography workflow for all sorts of forest photography. From mysterious misty footpaths marked by ancient sentinels on either side, to mesmerizing monumental trees captured using wide-angle lenses.
150+ pages | 30.000 words
Widescreen format - high resolution images and screenshots
Interactive chapter links
Many dozens of visual examples, finalized works, before- and after comparisons and behind-the-scenes footage
This book includes five parts:
Creative Vision
Finding Subjects and When to Capture Them
The Technicalities of a Great Image
Engaging the Digital Darkroom
Two Forest Photography Cases: “Shelter” & “Of Oak, Beech and Sadness”
Fantasy Landscape
It’s tough to place the chaos of the forest under your spell. Isolating subjects to create a fantasy landscape like this can be challenging.
First tip: Go to the forest on overcast, rainy days or very early in the morning for a chance of mist. But what do you do after capturing? How do you release the magic of the Dark Forest? That’s where this tutorial comes in.
In this complete 4-part video tutorial, you will learn how to handle difficult lighting situations. We’ll start out with a thorough explanation on composition forest photography.
Next, we’re going to my go-to Dutch forest: Speulderbos. Here we work with flat, overcast light. After that we’ll move on to Kellerwald in Germany with a wildly different kind of image featuring insane amounts of dynamic range. I bet anyone would be tempted to use HDR techniques tame those highlights, But I’m showing you that there’s much more information in the highlights and shadows than meets the eye. In the last part, I’ll take you to Luxembourg in peak autumn, where’s it’s all about separating and controlling color. And all of those images are shown from start to finish!
You will learn to get detail out of shadows and highlights without using HDR. Additionally, you will learn lighting techniques such as Color Dodging, Diffuse Light and my very own Specular Highlighting light effects to make your images appear to have come straight from a fantasy world.
We will make good use of Luminosity Masking in the included videos too. Follow along and you will get the results you’re looking for to make every fantasy landscape sing! There are free tools out there and you will find links to them within the document you’ll download first. That PDF also contains the download links to all video material and learning material needed to follow along.
Resized PSDs and DNG raw-files are included for all images. All videos are fully narrated and annotated/subtitled (English only) to explain what’s going on.
The Dark Forest
I’ve been coming back to the Dark Forest theme for years now. I love it in here, no matter which season. If you think autumn is the only season worth visiting the forest in with your camera, you’re missing out. This is the third and largest tutorial in a series about woodland photography, where we specifically tackle different locations, seasons and lighting conditions.
A dark winter forest is perhaps my favorite. The bleak, desolate landscape just appeals to me. We used to have a lot of snow here in the Netherlands, but winters have changed. It’s all bare trees now. So let’s bring your camera as I teach you all the ins and outs of woodland photography post-processing.
In this complete 4-part video tutorial, you will learn how to edit forest photos from all seasons. We’ll cover summer, spring and several stages of autumn and winter photography so you can go to any forest confidently if the conditions are right.
For before and after images, what you can learn and all specs and details of the included video tutorials, please refer to those pages.
What’s included in this course
⭐ 2 Processing Video Tutorials + 150 page e-book
⭐ High quality voice guiding by a professional, native English speaking voice actor (No AI).
⭐ Full start-to-finish editing videos, with very different approaches.
⭐ PSD-files (resized) of the images with every adjustment still present.
⭐ Read-me file linking to additional tools such as TK Actions and the last sharpening tool you will ever need.
⭐ A bunch of ever updated videos that keep up with tools, updates and versioning, to make these videos absolutely timeless.
How to watch and other fine print
After payment, you will download a PDF document containing links to download the actual videos and files needed to follow along from a private Dropbox link. You don’t need Dropbox, or any other account, it’s just hosted there on mine. There’s additional information in that PDF as well.
Note that this is a Digital Download product. No physical DVD or USB thumb drive is included.
I do not offer refunds on digital products.
Fully English subtitled by me. Narrated by Michael in English, a professional American voice actor (no AI).
PLUS nearly two hours of additional videos as a free bonus.
You can download the files separately, so you don’t have to download one huge file all at once.