There’s one thing in photography that you can’t control: the weather. For landscape photographers, this is part of the challenge that helps to make the subject satisfying when the elements do come together. But even when the weather isn’t great, unless it’s pelting down with rain, moody weather conditions are fantastic for capturing interesting images, and we’re going to focus on some of the editing techniques that work perfectly with this style of photography.
For this set of techniques, we’re going to take a progressive approach where the layers for each technique will be kept in place. Each one will build on the previous step, although they can also be applied in isolation. Many processing techniques can be used with moody landscape images and – as shown here – one, several or all can be applied depending on what the image requires, and ultimately to match your vision for how the scene should look.
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