My name is Nickolas Warner and I’m a landscape and travel photographer who focuses on the extreme. My photography emphasizes strange and unearthly nature, geography and scenes. Traveling plays a big part in my photographs with an emphasis on environments and cultures that are anything but ordinary. In an often mundane world, my goal is to bring the viewer to atypical locations that don’t always resemble earth.
While most photographers are just now beginning to associate Pakistan with mountains, the reality is that this is just a small portion in the far north of the country. Along the southern coast lies the equally unique and stunning landscape of Balochistan. This area is a geological wonderland, filled with some of the strangest and…
If you’ve spent any amount of time looking at landscape photography online over the last decade, you’ve almost certainly seen the this glowy, almost dream-like look photographs. This style is known as Orton Effect, and I’d argue it’s probably the most overused editing technique in landscape photography. Origin The effect was invented in the 1980s…
After more than a decade of photographing the aurora, I’ve developed an editing workflow that consistently produces clean, natural-looking results while preserving the magic of the night. In this guide, I’ll walk you through a basic complete process, from correcting white balance and reducing noise to enhancing the aurora without making it look artificial. Original…
