What Will You Learn?

✔️ Directing attention to the parts that matter (and redirecting the eye away from the edges).

✔️ Range Masking: Controlling light in Camera Raw and Lightroom.

✔️ Creative Controlled Warping & The Transform Tool.

✔️ Highlight Color Dodging.

✔️ Specular Highlighting – a trick that I invented.

✔️ Separating autumn colors.

✔️ Changing the Hue without Artifacts.

✔️ Applying negative Clarity and Dehaze to make a dreamy effect.

✔️ Blending sun stars.

✔️Getting great results in both overcast conditions and shooting high dynamic range images against the light.

✔️ Applying negative Clarity and Dehaze to make a dreamy effect.

✔️Handling HDR, direct sunlight and over-exposed skies and blending exposures in the forest (and their necessity).

✔️Focus stacking.

It’s tough to get the chaos of the forest under your spell. Isolating subjects that speak to you among stuff that all looks alike is challenging. First tip: Go the forest on overcast, rainy days or very early in the morning for a chance of mist. But what do you after capturing? How do you release the magic of the Dark Forest? That’s where this new tutorial comes in.

In this complete 4-part video tutorial, you will learn how to handle difficult lighting situations. We’ll start out with part one, in which I explain a thing or two about composition. Next, we’re going to my go-to Dutch forest, Speulderbos and 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 to get it under control. 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 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. Follow along and you will get the results you’re looking for! 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 and follow along materials.

Resized PSDs and DNG raw-files are included for all images and all videos are fully narrated and annotated (subtitled) to explain what’s going on.

What’s Included?

⭐ These four videos contains more than 3,5 hours’ worth of processing together.

⭐ Three PSD-files (resized) of “Trifecta”, “Feet of Fangorn” and “Communal Hill” with every adjustment still present.

⭐ All resized raw files (DNG) with every adjustment still present. Plus pre-processed focus stacks in case you want to skip a step.

⭐ Read-me file linking to additional tools such as TK Actions and the last sharpening tool you will ever need.