‘Niagara Revealed’ - Horseshoe Falls, Niagara Falls, Canada-USA border
photo by Christoph Fischer
website - https://beautysurroundsyou.com/
original image - https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50452656382_91b0634dc2_b.jpg
Niagara Falls are grand just by themselves, but this moody lighting and great camera angle makes them spectacular.
I removed the sun from behind the mist, it was looking like white blotch.
Lone tree, unknown location
photo by Johannes Plenio
website - https://j.plenio.de/
original image - https://unsplash.com/photos/MS2dni_S3Ew
Unbelievably atmospheric.
I removed the sun flare and fiddled with the colors.
Hoher Kasten, Appenzell Alps, Switzerland
photo by Janosch Diggelmann
website - https://www.instagram.com/janoschphotos/
original image - https://unsplash.com/photos/G6xYhlFAQzg
These colors work so nice here. Also, a very nice composition, with lots of foreground elements and great depth.
I removed some artefacts, balanced the colors, and enhanced all the detail I could.
National Park in Nan province, Thailand
photo by Pongpon Rinthaisong
website - https://www.instagram.com/spyarm/
original image - https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-landscape-national-park-nan-thailand-province-image67643824#res29250703
A nice clean composition. I made it even cleaner by removing the visitors.
There was also a terribad vignette in there, so I gently threw it out.
‘Clandestine’ - Cuerno Principal and Este mountains, Torres Del Paine National Park, Southern Patagonia, Chile
photo by Ted Gore
website - http://www.tedgorecreative.com/
original image - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5349724ee4b056257cdcb44b/1455149006523-DJAPHH7TCQPQDTYTQ6ZT/24794871145_5f1c52194c_o.jpg
Nice framing by the couds.
The Magic Hour seemed a bit too orange to me, so I let some blues back in.
‘Firehole River Sunrise’ - Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
photo by Rodney Lough Jr.
website - https://www.rodneyloughjr.com/
original image - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54fa3009e4b0152d9ffb33ee/1437238864170-MP8F4CHTAMAVKGQO6541/image-asset.jpeg
An amazing photo. There is probably a reason this photographer has photos in the Smithsonian.
I just darkened the image a little as I usually do, so it looks better on the screen.
Seceda, Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy
photo by Daniel Francis
website - https://www.flickr.com/photos/d2francis2/
original image - https://live.staticflickr.com/8410/29967995056_f0621b1bec_k.jpg
Coz we're half way there. This is the 183rd wallpaper. Exactly half way through the year. And this one is fitting, because a photo of this particular place - Seceda in Italy - made me waant to start collecting landscapes. Here is the photo. Technically, it's pretty bad, but the atmosphere is something else. So I wanted a similar, but higher quality photo of this cliff, during a cloud inversion. Easier said than done. I finally found one I almost liked, but it was shot during a very sunny day, with too much glare for my taste. So I decided to make it more moody, and here's the result.
I turned the sky stormy, and tried to make it look like there is a hole in the clouds somewhere off-screen through which the sky shines onto the green plateau. You be the judge if I succeeded (had to really hold myself back not to make a really bad pun here. But now you have it in your mind anyway, don't you?)
‘Forgotten King’ from Onodrim collection - Laurel forest on Madeira island, Portugal
photo by Enrico Fossati
website - https://www.enricofossati.it/
original image - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFnHRe_XEAIq540?format=jpg&name=large
Straight out of Lord of the Rings.
I think I have a problem - this photographer calls his processing 'Dark Processing,' and generally produces dark photos, but I still thought it could be darker. So darker it is. Help.
