Plethora of Colours | Weekly Photo #124
Although last week’s post was a little on the heavy side, I’m so pleased with the positive feedback it received. Many of you could relate to what I said and that proves just how important talking about difficult subjects such as mental health is.
In that same, rather long blog post, I also promised this one would be shorter and I intend to keep that promise and instead just focus on one thing. Autumn! This is the time of year many landscape photographers like the best because the slightly dulled greens of late summer turn into a plethora of vibrant yellows, reds and oranges as the leaves prepare to fall for another year.
Fujifilm XT2 | XF55-200mm | 90mm | 1/4th Second | f/9 | ISO250
Also, at this time of year, sunrise starts to happen at a much more reasonable time than in the summer. Gone is the lack of sleep the night before and the godawful 3:30 am alarms! Instead, I can now wake up at 6 am and still be on-location before the birds begin to sing. Much better.
Last October, I went out to my local woodland in an attempt to photograph some of the changing colours of early autumn and I spotted this view. I would have much preferred that the path was flat or went downhill so I could make more of a feature of it but it wasn’t to be. I even tried the view looking back from upon the hill but that didn’t work at all.
What I did like though was the way the path was leading through this fantastic tunnel of trees and with the autumnal transformation well underway, I decided I needed to photograph those beautiful colours. Although I didn’t think there was a portfolio worthy photo here, if I tried hard enough, I could come up with a composition that worked well enough to come away with a nice enough photo.
I set the tripod up on the left-hand side of the path to allow what little of it there was to flow from right to left. Doing so allowed me to include those interesting birch trees on the right-hand side which also added some visual weight over there and to my eye, balanced the composition against the brighter area at the end of the tree tunnel quite well.
With the tripod as high as it would go to try to minimise the effect the fill was having, I dialled in the settings, waited for the leaves to settle between gusts of wind and took the photo.
Last year, we had strong winds almost non-stop during late October and early November which blew most of the leaves off the trees early. So, I’ll be out exploring the woodland again over the next few weeks in a bid to photograph some more of those beautiful autumnal colours and I’m keeping my fingers firmly crossed for the weather to stay mild long enough to do so.
Until next week.
Trevor
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