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mountain lake. With the Solsticeview preset applied.mountain lake. Photographed without a preset.
Solsticeview applied to mountain lake

Land, Light and Seasons

Built for light and weather; open landscape and altitude; seasons, winter and snow. The subjects inside it are sky, general, landscape, water and travel. The light runs mid, film matte, neutral natural and crisp clean.

Solsticeview Land, Light and Seasons is 468 presets in 26 collections.

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What it does to a photograph

coast village. With the Cloudlatitude preset applied.coast village. Photographed without a preset.
Cloudlatitude applied to coast village
coast village, graded with Cloudlatitude: 8 of this library's 26 collections
farm gate. With the Cloudlatitude preset applied.farm gate. Photographed without a preset.
Cloudlatitude applied to farm gate
farm gate, graded with Cloudlatitude: 8 of this library's 26 collections
horse field. With the Horizonlux preset applied.horse field. Photographed without a preset.
Horizonlux applied to horse field
horse field, graded with Horizonlux: 18 of this library's 26 collections
farm gate. With the Horizonlux preset applied.farm gate. Photographed without a preset.
Horizonlux applied to farm gate
farm gate, graded with Horizonlux: 18 of this library's 26 collections
field fence. With the Cloudlatitude preset applied.field fence. Photographed without a preset.
Cloudlatitude applied to field fence
field fence, graded with Cloudlatitude: 8 of this library's 26 collections
field fence. With the Horizonlux preset applied.field fence. Photographed without a preset.
Horizonlux applied to field fence
field fence, graded with Horizonlux: 18 of this library's 26 collections
field fence. With the Solsticeview preset applied.field fence. Photographed without a preset.
Solsticeview applied to field fence
field fence, graded with Solsticeview: 26 of this library's 26 collections

It does not cover architecture, interiors and property; moods and tonal statements; workflow and utility bases; colour harmony and palettes. Those collections live in other products on this network, and nothing here stands in for them.

What is inside, territory by territory

Light and weather

14 collections, 252 presets

  • Closed Sky
  • Cloud Cover
  • First Light
  • Grey Weather
  • Hard Sun
  • High Latitude
  • High Noon
  • Last Warmth
  • and 6 more

Open landscape and altitude

7 collections, 126 presets

  • Afternoon Lean
  • Alpine Air
  • Continental Dry
  • Desert Light
  • Drone Overhead
  • Salt Flat
  • Steppe Wide

Seasons, winter and snow

5 collections, 90 presets

  • Autumn Road
  • Polar Summer
  • Spring Green
  • Summer Heavy
  • Winter Pale

What contains what

2 smaller products are wholly inside this library. Buy this one and you have all of them; buy one of them first and what you paid comes off this price.

This library is itself inside 3 larger libraries.

Solsticeview · Open landscape and altitude

Solsticeview makes one kind of light.

468 presets across 5 kinds of light is 468 presets for open landscape and altitude photography. Every one of them is below, before you pay for any of it.

What this light does

one frame, 4 presets

Land, Light and Seasons, an almanac on a trail

4 of them, on one photograph. Drag to compare before and after.

  1. Mountain lake. With the Squall Line preset applied.Mountain lake. Photographed without a preset.
    Squall Line applied to Mountain lake

    No. 344

    Squall Line

    Squall lines and shelf cloud, clarity and dehaze leading to carve structure out of grey.

  2. Mountain lake. With the Open Noon preset applied.Mountain lake. Photographed without a preset.
    Open Noon applied to Mountain lake

    No. 313

    Open Noon

    Warms the whole frame globally instead of band by band, a fast one-click for large shoots under unbroken cloud.

  3. Mountain lake. With the Rush Bank preset applied.Mountain lake. Photographed without a preset.
    Rush Bank applied to Mountain lake

    No. 464

    Rush Bank

    For wet ground vegetation in low light, a cool reading in the set.

  4. Mountain lake. With the Shadow Open preset applied.Mountain lake. Photographed without a preset.
    Shadow Open applied to Mountain lake

    No. 240

    Shadow Open

    Opens the black wells under a high sun as far as they will go, for subjects standing in their own hard shadow.

Explore every preset in this pack

4 presets · 4 scenes

4 of the 468 presets in this library, on the same four photographs. Nothing below is a sample. Open one and drag.

  1. No. 344Squall LineSquall lines and shelf cloud, clarity and dehaze leading to carve structure out of grey.
    Squall Line applied to Farm gate Before: Farm gate
    Farm gate
    Squall Line applied to Mountain lake Before: Mountain lake
    Mountain lake
    Squall Line applied to Horse field Before: Horse field
    Horse field
    Squall Line applied to Field fence Before: Field fence
    Field fence

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Squall Line. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  2. No. 313Open NoonWarms the whole frame globally instead of band by band, a fast one-click for large shoots under unbroken cloud.
    Open Noon applied to Farm gate Before: Farm gate
    Farm gate
    Open Noon applied to Mountain lake Before: Mountain lake
    Mountain lake
    Open Noon applied to Horse field Before: Horse field
    Horse field
    Open Noon applied to Field fence Before: Field fence
    Field fence

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Open Noon. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  3. No. 464Rush BankFor wet ground vegetation in low light, a cool reading in the set.
    Rush Bank applied to Farm gate Before: Farm gate
    Farm gate
    Rush Bank applied to Mountain lake Before: Mountain lake
    Mountain lake
    Rush Bank applied to Horse field Before: Horse field
    Horse field
    Rush Bank applied to Field fence Before: Field fence
    Field fence

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Rush Bank. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

  4. No. 240Shadow OpenOpens the black wells under a high sun as far as they will go, for subjects standing in their own hard shadow.
    Shadow Open applied to Farm gate Before: Farm gate
    Farm gate
    Shadow Open applied to Mountain lake Before: Mountain lake
    Mountain lake
    Shadow Open applied to Horse field Before: Horse field
    Horse field
    Shadow Open applied to Field fence Before: Field fence
    Field fence

    Drag the handle. Left is the original, right is Shadow Open. Rendered from the preset's own settings, not a Lightroom export, so the real thing carries a little more bite.

Read it like an almanac. In the thin months the light is pale and the shadows go blue, and Winter Pale keeps them that way. Polar Summer holds the snow under a flat continuous daylight. Spring Green pulls the new yellow leaf toward green and lifts the shade. Summer Heavy keeps the saturation only in the leaf under hard light. Autumn Road deepens the reds, cuts the greens and stops the browns from going flat.

The day has its own hours. First Light separates land from sky by tone alone, with no gold invented. Morning Rise puts early sun down one side and holds the shadow cool. High Noon recovers clipped whites and gives empty shadows detail; Hard Sun pulls the glare and opens the shade. Last Warmth is a two-temperature grade, amber on the lit top and blue below. High Latitude is the low northern beam against sky-lit shade.

Most days are grey, so the overcast collections run as a ladder. Cloud Cover is cool and documentary. Closed Sky steps one rescue up in strength, member by member, from a thin veil to a low ceiling. Grey Weather warms the highlights for wet streets. Monsoon Grey keeps the sky as the dark bright thing. Open Sky warms the blue-grey cast off skin in open shade; Temperate Coast opens the greens under maritime cloud. Sea Fog and Storm Front are the far ends, mist kept soft and a squall carved from grey. Altitude and distance close the trail: Alpine Air cuts the haze and deepens the sky, Continental Dry and Desert Light take the hard inland and arid light, Salt Flat keeps the pan white, Steppe Wide keeps straw straw, Drone Overhead makes the top-down pattern graphic, Afternoon Lean is dusty low sun on the farm track.

Not on this trail: the exclusive land and weather sets, Highland Thin, Snow Field, Rain Glass, Tropical Humid and Blossom Drift, each sold on one specialist page only. All-Weather Light and Land and Light are the smaller packs of the same country; this library is the whole year.

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Yours to keep, for personal and client work. Please do not share the files. The license

Netzah Elad Topaz, the photographer who makes these presets

the maker

Why I Make These

I am Netzah Elad Topaz. I take photographs and I build software, and the two keep leading me back to the same problem. You were there. The light was doing something you will not see again. Then the photo comes back flat, and it is not what you were looking at.

Closing that gap is the whole job. Every preset here is built from Adobe defaults by hand, with a written note for what it should do to a picture, and it is judged on photographs before it ships. Nothing is a filter dropped on top of your work.

What I want is simple. You open a photo you almost gave up on, you tap once, and there it is: the day you remember, not the file your camera handed you. That is worth doing properly.

Questions, answered

Which one for a dull grey afternoon?

Closed Sky. It runs from the lightest correction to the strongest in order, so tap down the list until the field looks the way the day felt. Grey Weather if the ground is wet and you want gold in the highlights.

Do these work in the free Lightroom app?

Yes. Import the .xmp files in the free Lightroom app on iPhone or Android, no subscription needed. They also work in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom on desktop.

What exactly do I get?

All 468 presets from Land, Light and Seasons as .xmp files in an instant ZIP download. The link also lands in your email, and the purchase stays in your account so you can re-download any time.

How do I install them?

Two minutes: unzip, then import inside Lightroom. The step-by-step guide covers iPhone, Android, and desktop.

Can I use them for client work?

Yes. The single-user license covers personal and commercial photography. The one thing you can't do is share or resell the preset files themselves.

Can I tweak a preset after applying it?

Always. A preset is a starting point; every slider stays yours to adjust.

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Plateaublue applied to The lake that made you stop walking.

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Horizonlux applied to The gate, the field, the green done right

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Reeltint applied to Cafe window, one tap later

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Roamhue applied to The rooftop hour, kept the way it felt.

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