Woodland E-Book

“Woodland” is my second E-Book in which I take you on a digital workshop through diverse forests, where no secrets are held back. From mysterious misty footpaths marked by ancient sentinels, to mesmerizing monumental trees captured using wide-angle lenses.

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Woodland

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 all five parts:

  1. Creative Vision

  2. Finding Subjects and When to Capture Them

  3. The Technicalities of a Great Image

  4. Engaging the Digital Darkroom

  5. Two Forest Photography Cases: “Shelter” & “Of Oak, Beech and Sadness”

Chapters in this E-book

Foreword

Part One: Creative Vision

  • Catharsis - What photography could mean for you 6

  • Frustration 6

  • When everything goes well 6

  • Capturing oneself 7

  • What photography is to me 8

  • Copying 9

  • About Inspiration: What motivates you? 10

  • Using inspiration 11

  • Having a unique style 12

  • Vision and style 12

  • Journeys and Stories 12

  • Popularity vs quality 14

Part Four: Engaging the Digital Darkroom

  • How Much is Too Much? 60

  • Taboo 61

  • Handling Criticism 61

  • The importance of visualization in post-processing 62

  • Your own journey 64

  • Software, plugins and tools 65

  • Post-processing with Adobe programs 65

  • Non-destructive editing 66

  • Luminosity Masks Automation 67

  • Exporting for Web: File Formats, Size, Resolution and Sharpening 68

  • Working with multiple images in post 72

  • Focus stacking in post 72

  • 1 Pre-processing 73

  • 2 Bringing photos together / Load files into Stack 73

  • 3 Auto-Align Layers 75

  • 4 Auto-Blend Layers 76

  • 5 Fixing the Stack 77

  • Stitching panoramas 79

  • 1 Preprocessing 80

  • 2 Bringing photos together / Load files into Stack 80

  • 3 Auto-Align Layers 81

  • 4 Auto-Blend Layers 81

  • 5 Repair, straighten and crop 82

  • Light Effects 84

  • The Orton Effect 84

  • Light Bleed 85

  • Diffuse Light 86

  • Specular Highlights 87

  • Black and White Conversions 89

Part Two: Subjects & Conditions

  • Scouting the Forest 16

  • Identifying trees on satellite images 16

  • The Landscape of the Netherlands 18

  • Monumental trees 20

  • How to photograph monumental trees 20

  • Minimum Focus Distance 21

  • Weather Conditions and Time of Day 22

  • Twilight 23

  • Snow 25

  • Flowers and young greenery 26

  • Mist 27

  • Sunrays 28

Part Five: Post-Production Cases

  • The complete recreation of “Shelter” 96

  • The complete recreation of “Of Oak, Beech and Sadness” 132

Part Three: The Technicalities of a Great Image

  • Gear 29

  • In my bag 29

  • Sensor Sizes 30

  • Camera Settings: The rules and when to break them 31

  • Raw 31

  • Exposure 31

  • Getting sharp images 33

  • Deliberate non-sharp images 34

  • Color harmony 35

  • Simplicity vs. Chaos - How getting closer leads to more pleasing compositions 43

  • Personal Growth 44

  • Taking a step back 44

  • Finding compositions: Seeing instead of looking 46

  • Looking deeper 47

  • The hike without a camera 48

  • A new way of looking at contrast 49

  • Advanced Techniques in the Field 50

  • Focus Stacking 51

  • The compositional advantage of focus stacking 52

  • How many images for focus stacking? 52

  • Handling Movement 53

  • Even more Depth-of-Field 53

  • Automating Focus Stacking (Focus Bracketing) 54

  • Photographing panoramas 55

  • Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) 57

Specs, how to download and other fine print

After payment, you will download a zip-file. Unpack it. The e-book is inside and split into parts.

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.

  • 156 pages.

  • Interactive PDF (use the chapter links in the contents to jump to that chapter).

  • High resolution images.

  • No secrets, all my techniques exposed.

  • English.