​Excellent autumn photography skills

Autumn is a great time of year to photograph trees because the usual green can go a little crazy during this season, canvas prints with the overturned palette of yellow, orange and red across much of the country. However, a still point of view alone does not always produce beautiful pictures.

I am reminded of a quote by Claude Monet, one of the great French impressionists, who said: "To me the landscape does not exist, because its appearance changes all the time. But the changing light and air around it make it come alive." Or to put it another way: While peak leaf color is a good place to start, it's this time of year when the camera will make the fall scenery fascinating and memorable, canvas prints online making this colorful season all the more special.

Here are six fall photography tips to help you take stunning photos of leaves this fall.

The equipment for taking autumn leaf photos includes advanced point-and-shoot cameras, reverse-free cameras, floating frames australia simple cameras, SLRS, ultra-zoom and prime lenses, and macro lenses.

Tip 1: Focus on a single element

The first challenge of landscape photography is figuring out what to focus on. Visitors may enjoy immersing themselves in nature, but for photographers, seeing the whole wide landscape can be confusing. This is why I try to focus only on one element that can be photographed and plan shots around that particular element.

In the above photo, I took a shot near the top of the mountain, and the discolored trees present a stunning visual effect.

At the bottom of the photo, the trees closest to me have more contrast and more color than those farther away at the top.

I realized that this was a textbook example of what is called an "atmospheric perspective" in fine art, as you will often see in great Renaissance paintings (including Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa). Color intensity and detail become clearer as the object recedes into space.

Tip 2: Play depth of field

If you've ever read reviews about high-end lenses, you've probably heard the term "rambo". Take a look at the photo above, and see the wonderful spot in the background where the green trees turn into light and shadow. This blurring effect is called "scatter shot" and is one of the hallmarks of a good lens camera.

How to achieve the "scatter scene" effect? By minimizing the depth of field, you can focus some objects and blur others. The "scatter view" effect is easy to implement if you use manual Settings.

First, select the leaves to photograph and use the far end of the zoom lens.

Then, I set the camera to "Aperture first" mode and used the maximum aperture. In this case, f / 5.0. But if your camera and camera lens allow it, try driving it to F / 2.8 or larger. (The lower the aperture, the larger the aperture, resulting in a narrower depth of field and better scatter.)

Tip 3: Use a simple background

It's fun to photograph the whole landscape, but sometimes you just need to focus on the shape and color of a few leaves, like in the picture above.

Sometimes such shots will just show up, but other times, if you want to shoot leaves and branches in a fun way, try walking around from different angles and approaching them until you find a background (in this case, a wall) that really highlights the leaves.

In this case, Not only did I use the green wall to simplify the composition, but I also used light and shade contrast to enhance the quality of the photo and bring the yellow maple leaves out of the background.

Tip 4: Change your Angle

Sometimes, when I take pictures, It feels like I'm in a fixed shooting area, and no matter where I turn, I won't get a satisfying picture. At this point, I make a conscious effort to change my shooting Angle. For example, I would hold the camera above my head, or, conversely, place the camera directly on the ground. This is what I did in the last photo: I crouched down and placed my camera just a few inches above the forest floor. Since I've been using a rotatable LCD camera, I've been able to see the images I'm taking from any particular Angle. If your camera has this feature, please use it to take pictures from the ant's point of view. It will definitely attract the attention of the audience.

Tip 5: Look for lead lines

Renaissance painter Filippo Brunelleschi has been dead for 500 years, but his work is still very instructive to us photographers. The use of lead lines in an image is a classic form of composition, both in photographs and paintings, dating back to the middle of the 15th century. The most common type is the one you see above: the road to the scene. Other examples include train tracks or long piers.

Visually, the purpose of the guide line is to draw your eyes to a particular point in the image. In this photo, the track is used as a guide line, which directs your eyes to the vanishing areas.

In this photo, I try to take this idea a step further. Instead of placing the road in the center of the picture, I placed it on the side.

The middle tree divides the composition into two distinct halves: the road on the left serves as a guide line, which creates a strong sense of space. On the right is a jumble of bushes, trunks, branches and leaves, a bit like an abstract expressionist painting. By placing the road to one side, it is possible to capture images that contain very deep and very shallow Spaces, resulting in an interesting composition.

Tip 6: Experiment with camera Settings

Many advanced cameras, even some point-and-shoot cameras and smartphones, come with a lot of tools and Settings. The best way to take better pictures with these tools is to experiment actively.

But panorama mode is just one of many options. Others use macro mode, large canvas printing which allows you to shoot up close to the veins on the leaves. Or use high Dynamic Range (HDR), which allows you to capture sharper details in highlights and shadows.