Countries

Countries started as a personal archive. After years of travelling through Europe, I noticed that every country has its own light. Portugal filters sunlight differently than Finland does. The streets of Naples almost reach through your screen, while a Polish winter asks for an entirely different kind of quiet. That visual identity is what holds this pack together. Not one look for everything, but ten palettes that each come from somewhere specific. They work together because they grew out of the same journey, but each one tells a different part of that story.

This pack was made for photographers who travel and document. Street photographers searching for everyday moments in unfamiliar cities. Portrait photographers who photograph their subjects in their own environments, in available light. Travel photographers who want to move beyond the postcard perspective. You do not need to be a professional, and you do not need to have travelled across Europe. What matters is that you want your photos to feel something, not just show something.

The presets work best in situations with natural light and real environments. Cold mornings on city streets. Warm afternoons at markets or town squares. Portraits made indoors, next to a window, with some hard sidelight. The texture of walls, the colour of cobblestones, faces caught in a moment of thought. Not every preset will match every place you visit, and that is part of the idea. You choose by instinct, the same way you do when you are shooting.

As separate files, these are just ten presets. As a collection, they say something together. The colour tones are calibrated against each other, the contrast sits in the same range, and the mood shifts gradually from warm to cool and back again. That makes it straightforward to use photos from different countries side by side, in a series, a photobook or a feed, without the whole thing falling apart visually.

Import the pack through Lightroom Classic or the mobile version of Lightroom. Apply a preset to your photo, check the exposure and adjust the exposure slider slightly if needed. That is usually all it takes. When you start a new series, scroll through all ten and pick the preset that sits closest to the atmosphere of your images. Use that as your starting point and work from there. That is how you build a visual style without it feeling forced.