‘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.
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.
‘Nemophila’ - Lone tree in baby blue eyes flower field in Hitachi seaside park, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
photo by Morgan French
website - https://mtfrench.smugmug.com/
original image - https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-QsV78bk/3/4K/i-QsV78bk-4K.jpg
The tree by itself is amazing, the crazy blue flowers take the whole photo to another level.
It needed some work, though. I removed the park visitors, brought out the detail from the clouds, balanced the colors, and removed a bad vignette.
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.
‘Mighty Glencoe’ - Glencoe, Glen Coe, Lochaber, Scotland, UK
photo by Silviu Dascalu
website - https://www.silviudascalu.com/
original image - https://i.redd.it/guxo3pdw0vw71.jpg
Scotland again. Green hills again. Overcast skies again. Wonder if they get any sun over there?
Well, if I had to have clouds, I thought I could at least recover some detail from them. And I fixed the color balance, and pushed the blacks some more.
‘Golden Forest Pathway’ - Unknown location
photo by Johannes Plenio
website - https://j.plenio.de/
original image - https://unsplash.com/photos/hvrpOmuMrAI
Nice moody atmosphere and wonderful colors.
Nothing much done here.
‘Forever Primordial’ - Karymsky Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
photo by Isabella Tabacchi
website - https://isabellatabacchi.com/
original image - https://isabellatabacchi.com/wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/Forever-primordial-web-res.jpg
This looks like a villain's lair. I love it.
I darkened it to for even more villanousness. Yes, I know it's not a word.
