Glenfinnan Viaduct, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK
photo by Jack Anstey
website - https://www.instagram.com/jack_anstey/
original image - https://unsplash.com/photos/XVoyX7l9ocY
There are many photos of this, I like this one the most. It's really something straight out of the book.
Had to balance the colors and fix the blacks.
‘In Green Company’ - Aurora Borealis over summit of the Austnesfjorden, Lofoten Islands, Norway
photo by Max Rive
website - https://maxrivephotography.com/
original image - https://i.redd.it/j5rg4thcjtc41.jpg
Very pointy. With one of the most beautiful auroras I've seen in a photo in the background. I removed the guy from the summit. Didn't actually have anything against him - he works great as a point of interest in the original portrait format. But in the reframed landscape, he is just a little too close to the edge of the frame and drags the eye out of the photo instead of in.
I also sharpened the whole thing for added detail.
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.
‘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.
Evergreen tea plantation, Munnar, Kerala, India
photo by Martin Morgenweck
website - https://www.martinmorgenweck.com/
original image - https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=2048x2048:format=jpg/path/sc92fc401a009c816/image/i9ad8ee7f8db9ed33/version/1642341385/image.jpg
Nice atmosphere and lighting.
I just darkened the sky a little.
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?)
A tree in Tuscany, Italy
photo by Daniel Kordan
website - https://danielkordan.com/
original image - https://danielkordan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/DSC_3102.jpg
I liked this photo - especially the silhouetted cart, but not the colors. Pale, monochrome and dirty.
So I went to town with them. I decided to make something that would look pretty to me, even if not exactly realistic. Warm, kind of what it may look like during the sunset. And I didn't like the look of the mud, so I made it more reddish.
‘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.
