KOSMAŠ: TURNING MIDDAY LIGHT INTO GOLDEN HOUR IN LIGHTROOM

I was driving from Neum to Durmitor. Somewhere after the Bosnian border post, just before the Montenegrin one, a double-peaked mountain appeared outside the window. It’s called Kosmaš, and there’s a viewpoint with the same name right there between the two checkpoints.

The light was everything a landscape photographer is told to avoid: midday sun, harsh shadows, a flat sky. I stopped anyway. Some places don’t wait for golden hour.

Back home, I opened the RAW in Lightroom Classic and set myself a task: make it look like the light I wanted to see, not the light I got. Below are the original and the final frame, and the full trip is on the channel.