I really happy with the fairy tale look I managed to get in this photo.

I do a lot of these forest photos – because I really like walking around in the forest with my camera – but sometimes I get a little bored with then, and that's when it's time to try something else with it in post.

I started out with a plain and simple HDR photo, like I normally do. But wasn't quiet happy with it.

So I try adding texture to it, but that didn't do anything good to the photo, and I was still not happy with how it looked.
Then I tried to use Topaz Impression – the PS plug-in that makes your photos look like paintings – but instead of using it to make it a painting I used the “paint photo” to blend with my original photo, and thereby adding a bit of glow and softness to the photo, and a little bit of the paint effect. And that turned out really well, and the photo was getting a look and feel that I really liked.
But something was still missing. So I ended up using the DFX plug-in from digital film tools to added some light rays, which added the last touch to it.

• Camera: nikon d800
• Shutter speed: 1/10s
• Aperture: ƒ/8
• ISO: 100
• Focal length: 14mm
• Taken: 8 May, 2015
• Location: 57° 4′ 27.539833333333″ N 9° 35′ 22.613833333333″ E

Ude i skoven by Bo47 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

2015 Denmark Digital Film Tools Europe Forest Geotag HDR Impression Jutland Lake Light Nikkor 14-24mm f:2.8 Nikon D800 Pond Rays Sun Texture Topaz Trees