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.
Forest photography holds many challenges. Whether you’re shooting against the light or in complete absence of light, there’s always some technical aspect that blocks the creative process. In this video, we’re taking 3 images from the raw stage all the way to a final image that looks like it was shot on the set of The Lord of the Rings.