'Veil of Paradise' (2020) - NSW, Australia
4000px X 2666px (HD for web, 4K as unlockable content)
Modern day landscape photographers are multi-faceted artists; tasked with not only capturing compositions perfectly in the field, but also harnessing the beauty of that scene through refined post-processing. There are varying degrees of this in different photographer’s workflows, endless debates on “how far is too far” - but in the end, for every digital photographer, the creative process does not finish once the shutter has been clicked.
The necessity to adjust and improve on what was captured dates back decades to black and white film, where the pioneer Ansel Adams would heavily “dodge and ...