Fall Photo Tips
Now that Fall is here grab your digital camera and get out there and start taking photos!
Here are 6 photo tips to help you get the best photos this Fall
Tip 1: Take Fall Landscape or Outside Shots in Early morning or Late Afternoon. Outdoor or landscape photography work well from the early morning or late afternoon natural light. One Travel Photographer Susan McCartney says, “It’s best to photograph outdoors when your shadow is longer than you are.”
In the early morning, you might get some fog or mist that will provide a soft background with some long shadows. Morning can provide a great time to go out and take some wonderful Fall photos.
In the later afternoon or early evening the golden light just before sunset transforms not only leaves hanging on trees, but also the leaves that have fallen on the ground.
Tip 2: When taking photos in the middle of the day use backlighting to enhance the photos. When the sun is overhead, you can use backlighting to make leaves glow in your photographs.
For example, see in the example how the light showing through the leaves makes the colors bright and interesting.
Tip 3: Use a close up lens to get really close to the leaves. Go ahead, zoom in with your lens and then put the close up lens on to get even closer! This will give a better image if you want to turn it into a digital scrapbooking embellishment.
Tip 4: Vary the kind of day you take photos, take photos with different types of skies. Don’t always take photos on blue 
sky days, or don’t always take photos on cloudy days – vary the kind of days you take photos on for different effects. You can take a photo of the same leaf or tree with a different type of sky and have a totally different kind of photo!
Each type of lighting offers different opportunities. If it is a sunny day, you get the benefit of blue sky and strong light and shadow. However, when the sky is overcast or when clouds obscure the sun, you get the benefit of enhancing the colors of the leaves relative to the rest of the surroundings. Stormy skies can make subtle colors “pop.”
Tip 5: Start taking the photos as soon as the leaves in your area start to turn colors. When you see the leaves turn, start taking photos and then keep taking photos as long as you can. Then when the heavy frost comes along, or a big windy rainstorm, color can decrease in intensity, and the wind will rip the leaves from the branches. Don’t miss getting your precious photos by waiting to long before you start taking your Fall photos.
Need some good places to get Fall Foliage shots? Why not check out the this blog article that talks about Fall Scenic Drives: a Photographic Opportunity!
Tip 6: Don’t forget to take candid photos of people with Fall scenery. Fall can give you the opportunity for some great candid photos. Children playing leaves, and couples strolling down a lane with Autumn Trees in the background.
Use a telephoto zoom lens to shoot unobserved candid pictures from farther away. It is very nice to get up close and personal when taking good photos.
However, if you have a camera with a fixed lens then you would have to be so close to the people you are photographing that the shot might be influenced by you because you are now part of the action. Being further away lets the scene develop without people feeling self-conscious and often you can capture more intriguing intimate photos.
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Happy Scrapping and have a nice day!
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