Elden Ring (DLC) - To High Peaks & Shadowed Ruins – Rob Haines Creative Space

in game photography

All photos were taken on PS5 in Quality mode with ray-tracing, and post-processed in Affinity Photo. Cinematic angles are the result of looking through the telescope, or crouching in front of a large rock to clip the camera through my character.

Two eagles perch on a cliff-edge, before a rising mountainous landscape amidst greenish-gray mist and cloud. In the midground, a stony ridge with a natural arch passes above tall sunlit conifers, and in the distance, a distinctive jagged mountain peak rears up to the right, its slopes shattered into a thousand spears.

A dimly-lit cavern with scattered cult statuary. White light streams in through a circular hole in the ceiling, ringed with stalactites, and an arched portal in the wall beyond is lit orange with firelight.

A shock of thin, dark pine trees cuts up the centre of the image. To the left, godrays turned pink by dust and ash shine past jagged grey cliff-tops. To the right a path leads downwards, past unnerving pillars of stone.

A pink-red valley halfway up a jagged mountain. To the right, a rocky path climbs up past a scattering of dark pine trees; to the left, it descends to a shallow red lake where two pale dragons are curled up sleeping. Beyond, red mist rises at the bottom of a series of knife-like peaks leading further upwards.

A sheep with a golden fleece grazes on red-brown grass on the slopes of a jagged mountain. A steep slope of purple earth curves up to the right, past a line of emaciated conifer trees. Jagged outcrops stretch above the path, and the sky beyond is cast in burning orange.

The grey corpse of a vast dragon towers over a cliff-edge. Its jaw is wide, its dead eye unblinking, and a bowl-like crucible lies fallen beneath its chin. A single wing rises tattered against the red sky, and in the foreground a pair of eagles look out over a ruined grey-brick house.

A path leading through a field of red flowers, past small grey statues towards a natural arch of jagged grey stone. The cliffs are lined with emaciated grey pine trees, and in the sky beyond the arch stands a colossal black tree threaded through with veins of gold

A grey rocky path through a field of crimson and pink flowers, thronged by grey pine trees. Occasional flowers glow firey orange.

A long, winding path up grey cliffs topped with a carpet of red flowers and scattered pine trees. In the distance, a precipitous cliff towers over the landscape, and the air is heavy with burning red embers.

A graveyard of grey gravestones and a carpet of bright red and pink flowers. A pair of large stones lean towards each other, and a cloaked undead figure stands between them, looking towards the camera. Red embers float in the air, against a landscape of greys and dark clouds above.

A blue-grey lake, surrounded by bright red flowers and clusters of gravestones. Carved bird statues with spread wings perch on a number of grave markers, and a pale pink mist rises from the water, partially obscuring the cliffs which rise high above.

A field of crimson flowers atop a grey plateau. A massive iron golem strides across the landscape, its body a flaming brazier.

An iron golem faces the camera, its brazier ablaze above a carpet of red flowers. Its arms terminate in horned claws, and sparks spit from between its metal bars, bright against the monochrome clouds.

A ragged iron golem roars with flame in a field of red flowers. It is turned towards the camera, its face hidden by the inferno. Dark grey smoke billows up towards the thick clouds above.

An enormous, twisted tree with golden sap weeping from wounds in its bark. The tips of its branches look like flame, and veil-like cloth appears to drape across the pink-red sky. A tall, black citadel rises squat at the tree's base.

A wide underground cavern lit by a single shaft of pale light through a stalactite-lined hole above. The cavern is filled with a lake of blood, where a number of monstrous priests conduct some form of ritual; at the front, one of them sits before a ceremonial stone, while another raises a spear-like blade into the light.

An eagle perches on a red-hued rock, facing out towards a spiralling updraft between two jagged cliffs. The sky beyond is pale and golden, and red embers swirl in the moving air.

A chamber within the mountain, lit golden by the setting sun. A path leads past a red flower and towards a triangular rent in the cliff wall. To both sides, jagged peaks rise within the chamber, mighty plates of rock somehow holding together as they ascend.

A shallow lake part-way up the mountain, where a pale dragon with rock-like flesh lies sleeping beneath an overhang of blunted rocky columns. In the foreground, the shore is scattered with rough brown and orange grass.

A shard of grace in a rocky chamber lit with pink light from the sky. The slope ascends from bottom-left to middle-right, and the foreground is cast into shadow by a jagged overhang looming tooth-like from above.

A view down a valley of grey stone, where a vast natural arch holds up a causeway studded with grey-green pine trees. On a cliff to the right, a cross-and-sickle shines small and golden, and in the distance to the right, a spiralling city of shadows rises into the pink, yellow and grey clouds.

A gloomy blue underground chamber, stacked with crates and barrels, and holding three human-sized round cages of black iron. A lamp of white flame hangs from a ring in the centre of the ceiling, and a spectral figure dressed in rags kneels in the bottom-right, his head in his hands.

A frozen cavern far underground with hundreds of long ice-blue stalactites and stalagmites. An iced-over stream covers much of the floor; to the left a small brazier stands beside a skewed ceramic pot, and in the centre of the image a pair of large pots sit somewhat-incongruously on a rocky floor.

A blue-cast cavern far underground, suffused with blue mist and white ice crystals. A path curves downwards, marked by rounded columns supporting white torches. Large ceramic pots are chained with black iron, dangling above a precipitous drop in the centre of the room.

An unfrozen stream winds into blue mist, through piles of bones and corpses deep underground. Two sets of rounded pillars form a large archway either side of the water, and a large ceramic pot with spindly arms and short trunk-like legs stalks towards the camera through the shallow water.

A view from a blue underground chamber, past many ceramic pots strung up with black iron chains, towards where a shaft of pale light enters through a wide hole far above. Where the shaft cuts through the air, ice crystals sparkle white, and curtains of long stalactites gleam pale blue.

A copper-green lake beneath a grey-and-orange clouded sky. Spectral blue worms with red heads rise from the water, and tall trees rise from the water's edge.

A golden statue of Marika, headless and with arms outstretched, standing in a cleft between two cliffs above a field of golden grasses.

A golden tree in a cave, surrounded by little gold flowers and two perfumiers in white hoods. In the foreground, grey rock walls rise up to either side, adorned with yellow-green foliage and tangled tree roots.

A dirty orange-grey swamp in the shadows beneath a heavy rock overhang. Spectral gravestones pepper the shoreline, and to the right an arched stone mausoleum is silhouetted against the pale blue light.

A shaded valley of dark-grey grasses, pale-brown trees and spectral white gravestones. The valley curves to the left past fallen stone ruins, and in the top-left the sunlight catches a rising staircase leading up towards a shadowed city of spirals and towers in the sky above.

A golden-brown field of grasses and spectral gravestones. A line of trees grows at the far end of the field, and above their foliage a curved stairway supported by tall arches leads up to a shadowed city in the sky.

A sunlit valley where a shallow lake wends around fallen stone ruins and unnaturally large red flower buds. Red petals float on the waters, and the trees around the water's edge glow autumnal in the sun.