HDR Landscapes Magic December 25, 2018

If I Could Be Anything

If I could have any job in the world, it wouldn’t be a photographer. It would be someone studying photography. I would just attend photography workshops all year round and with all of my favorite photographers in the world’s most beautiful places. I would be constantly learning and constantly around like minded-ish individuals who love to stare at the stars and capture all of the magic that this grand universe has to…

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By Crystal Stafford

HDR Landscapes November 1, 2018

Nature’s Perfection

This photo took all of five minutes to process. I loaded the brackets into Aurora HDR, exported it to Photoshop, J tooled a few pieces of…

HDR Landscapes September 29, 2018

In Vivid Color

I have been moving away from super vibrant colors in my work in order to obtain a more documentary style, but these mountains can’t help it,…

HDR September 28, 2018

I’ve Got the Blue Tones

When the sun falls below the horizon the cool blue tones of evening fall upon the distant mountains beyond Queenstown, New Zealand. Magic 271/365, I’ve Got…

HDR Landscapes September 27, 2018

Technicolor Sunset

New Zealand gets some of the most epic sunsets because of its position far south of the equator. The places I frequent are usually ON the…

HDR Photos September 26, 2018

Where Hobbits Live

Did you know that Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand? Yeah, I figured. Everyone knows that. But doesn’t it look like it was…

Landscapes September 25, 2018

Inner Peace

If you could photograph what inner peace looks like, I think it would look a lot like this photo I took while attending an HDR workshop…

HDR Landscapes September 22, 2018

Sunset Over the Remarkables

The Remarkables are the mountains that rise 1,943 meters over the valley where Queenstown sits in New Zealand. They are what make Queenstown one of the…

HDR Landscapes September 21, 2018

The Remarkable Sun

This is another of my photos from my remarkable adventure in New Zealand. Remember the magical moment I described yesterday. Well, this is what I saw…

HDR Landscapes Magic Photos September 20, 2018

Sunset Over Queenstown

One evening during our photo workshop we drove up to the top of this mountain, set up our tripods, opened a few bottles of wine, and…