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.

3 Tutorials in this bundle

Monumental Trees

4 Season in the Dark Forest

Return to the Dark Forest

Monumental Trees

Learn to process wide-angle forest photos shot in harsh daylight and convert them to atmospheric images in two different approaches. This tutorial, like any of my Photoshop tutorials can be followed along starting in Lightroom or Camera Raw.

These moody forest shots weren’t that moody to begin with! Learn how to create mystical landscape art in broad daylight with this full-length video tutorial. Two very different approaches are shown in each part of this video. In one, we start in Lightroom and in the other we start in Camera Raw and I show you that they their raw conversion engine is the same! In both cases, we move into Photoshop to see the magic happen.

Watch me edit both “The Elder” and "Catch the Spirit" - start to finish. During this 2+ hour long silent editing video, you will learn various visual effects such as Soft Glow, Orton and Color Grading, aside from a host of stuff like warping, focus stacking by hand and dodging that will make your forest images sing.

Resized PSDs are included for all images. All videos are fully narrated and annotated/subtitled (English only) to explain what’s going on.

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.

Return to 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

⭐ 3 Processing Video Tutorials.

⭐ 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.