YOU CAN TAKE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AUTUMN PHOTOS!
It’s not hard to take a beautiful photo of autumn leaves… they do all the hard work for you. But, if you want to take the MOST beautiful autumn photos, we’ve gathered some tips and ideas from some of the best landscape photographers and photography sites to share with you.
You’ll learn how to capture the most beautiful color… how to rock the contrasts… how to dive into texture… how to compose the drama… how to find the fascinating… how to track down the treasures.
You’ll learn how to make your camera and gear sing your favorite autumn songs.
So bundle up, pack a thermos of warmth, and get outside! Autumn leaves are calling.
Once you check it out, share your photos with us in this week’s BN Photo Competition: Beautiful Leaves and/or on the BN Share Page.
There’s more to taking amazing photos of leaves than you might think! “How to Photograph Leaves - A Detailed Guide,” presented by the School of Digital Photography, offers some excellent advice.
This article is intended to be a guide for photographing leaves at their best; and it includes some very useful tips to get your leaf photography up to speed.
You’ll find tips about leaf selection, optimal lighting, filters, composition, and more.
“For an inspired photographer; leaves are a very interesting subject, as they come in such intricate and diverse patterns. There are hundreds of thousands of different kinds of leaves, in fact no two leaves are alike; they differ not only based on genera or family of the plant but also in size, shape, color, texture, pattern and in many other ways.”
Ephotozine has 27 photography projects to try this Autumn. With some classic shoots, like wide-angle landscape shots, to single trees, to a single leaf, there are many ways to capture autumn’s leafy glory.
This guide also includes ideas about abstract photos, filters, and reflections.
And there are more creative suggestions, like working with dew-beaded spider webs, frost-edged leaves, children playing in leaves, catching the wind as it tosses the leaves airborne, and getting an “ant’s eye-view.”
How about looking upwards to capture the trees’ canopies with a wide-angle lens or playing with backlight, or taking advantage of low sunbeams and low-hanging fog?
Ephotozine also has more technical tips about image stacking, hyperfocus, and time lapse photos.
Photographer David Clapp, who writes extensively for EPhotozine share his wisdom. Plus check out his photo tours with Light & Land.
He points out that during autumn, the Golden Hour is often an extra important factor, when the landscape lights up with the sun at a low position. It gives a soft glow to the vibrant colors, intensifying them.
Hoiberg also tells us that fog and overcast days can be beautiful in highlighting autumn’s colors too.
With more tips about natural framing, polarizing filters, and white balance, you can learn how to perfect your autumn leaf shots.
Jason Row, of Lightstalking offers 6 Tips for shooting stunning autumn scenes. They can help in all kinds of weather, which is great because we certainly get all kinds each autumn.
Row suggests paying attention to your histogram when shooting, so as not to oversaturate the reds making them look appear blown.
Row tells us how to nail the exposure of every shot, every time, no matter the lighting and weather conditions.
And he offers great tips on how to scout the best locations for shooting leaves, as well as how to compose tighter more detailed shots.
Row also advises about filters and lenses that are particularly helpful with leaf peeping.
So get out there, revel in the magnificence! And share your leaf peeping photos with us at BeautifulNow! Enter the BN weekly photo competition and share your photos on the BN Share Page.
