Call of the Mountains

€25.00

“Call of the Mountains - Learning Landscape Photography among the Giants” is my third E-book, written over the span of two years. As I spent time among the mountains, more and more ideas kept pouring in my head that I really want to teach. In this 143-page book, we’ll cover shooting techniques, gear, composition, getting that atmosphere and even post-processing.

  • 143 pages

  • 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 all five parts, which all have new insights into the various parts that go into landscape photography:

  1. Creative Vision

  2. Finding Subjects and Foregrounds

  3. The Technicalities of a Great Image

  4. Composition: An Analysis of my Mountain Photography

  5. Two Mountain Photography Cases: “Dauntless” & “Poltergeist Pass”

“Call of the Mountains - Learning Landscape Photography among the Giants” is my third E-book, written over the span of two years. As I spent time among the mountains, more and more ideas kept pouring in my head that I really want to teach. In this 143-page book, we’ll cover shooting techniques, gear, composition, getting that atmosphere and even post-processing.

  • 143 pages

  • 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 all five parts, which all have new insights into the various parts that go into landscape photography:

  1. Creative Vision

  2. Finding Subjects and Foregrounds

  3. The Technicalities of a Great Image

  4. Composition: An Analysis of my Mountain Photography

  5. Two Mountain Photography Cases: “Dauntless” & “Poltergeist Pass”

Contents:

Foreword

Part One ~ Creative Vision

Whispers of the Mountains 6

Greener Pastures 7

Catharsis 12

What I See when Looking at Mountains 13

Copying Me 14

Finding Inspiration in the Puzzle 15

MTG Basic Lands 17

The Puzzle 18

Part Two ~ The Coveted Mountain Light & Finding Subjects and Foregrounds

Scouting Mountains 20

Finding Compositions in the Digital Age 21

The Concept 21

Finding Foregrounds 23

Composition Commitment 24

Subjects 25

Ghostly Mountains 25

What Makes a Ghostly Mountain? 25

Techniques for Peaks 26

Flowers 27

Inside the Mountains: Canyons and Caves 28

Waterfalls, Rivers and Glaciers 29

Finding Foregrounds 30

Conditions 32

Mist, Pouring Rain and Darkness 32

Twilight 33

Sunrise 34

Snow 35

Above the Clouds 36

Nightscapes in the Mountains: The Milky Way 37

Nightscapes in the Mountains: The Northern Lights 38

Part Three ~ The Technicalities of a Great Image

Gear: What to bring up there 40

In my bag 40

Sensor Sizes 41

Camera Settings: The rules and when to break them 42

Raw 42

Exposure 42

Getting sharp images 45

Deliberate non-sharp images 47

Technical, but Practical - Steps to Technically Perfect Raw Files 47

(Ultra) wide lenses and sweeping foregrounds 47

For manual focus bracketing 48

Note for automatic focus bracketing 48

Note for automatic focus stacking 48

Telephoto images (Ghostly Mountains) 49

Capturing birds 50

Big Foregrounds - Minimum Focus Distance 51

Focus Stacking 52

How many images are required for focus stacking? 53

Automating Focus Stacking (Focus Bracketing) 54

Working with Distant Objects 55

Perspective Blending 55

Focal Length Blending 55

The Overwhelming Puzzle 55

Composite Images 56

Part Four ~ Composition: An Analysis of my Mountain Photography

“Crags and Glory” 59

“Last Beauty Before Mordor” 60

“For my Demons” & “Fimbulwinter” 62

“Paradise Warfare” 63

“The Tattered Spire” 64

“Touching the Void” 66

Luminosity: The Importance of Receding Contrast 70

Modes of Contrast in Lightroom and Camera Raw 72

The Basis for Luminosity: Exposure 73

Color and the Mood of your Mountains 74

Monochrome 74

Analogous color harmony 75

Complementary color harmony 76

Split complementary color harmony 77

Double complementary or quad color harmony 78

Conclusion 79

Part Five ~ Two Mountain Photography Cases

Case 1 ~ “Dauntless”

Why this Image? 80

The Journey 80

Composition 81

Photography - Capturing the Puzzle 83

Equipment & Technique 83

Focus Bracketing 84

Camera Settings 84

Movement 85

Raw Conversion and Pre-Processing 85

Organizing Layers 91

Focus Stacking in Photoshop 92

Blending by Hand 93

Blending in a Different Background 96

The Actual Post-Processing 100

Channel Selections & Masking: Mountain Light 100

Channel Selections & Masking: Sky and Flowers 104

Balance, Saturation and Exposure Corrections 106

Creative Controlled Warping 108

Dodging 109

Exposure Corrections in Camera Raw Filter 110

Orton Effect 114

Final Mood 115

Export for the Web 115

Case 2 ~ “Poltergeist Pass” 118

The Journey 118

Why this Image? 118

Composition 119

Photography - Capturing the Puzzle 120

Equipment & Technique 120

Camera Settings 120

Raw Conversion and Pre-Processing 121

Masking 126

Changing the Crop 128

Post-Processing 129

Light Bleed 129

Cloud Dodging 132

Finishing Touches and Export 134

Creating an Album Cover 136

Black and White Processing 137

Graphics 140

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