Autumn Willow

Looks like most of my fall color images, to much, almost looks chaoic.

Someone told me that in an image like this to add a small critter someplace in the picture...? Just an idea.

chauncey wrote in post #6567124
Looks like most of my fall color images, to much, almost looks chaoic.

Someone told me that in an image like this to add a small critter someplace in the picture...? Just an idea.

Thanks for the response chauncey.

I have a thing for willow trees. I find a lot of peace within the chaos.

As for using it as a background in a composite image... I'm way ahead of you That was one of the first things I thought of when I saw it.

Willow.my favorite tree in the world.

Fall colors are nice, but we only have basically one color here in north Texas -- brown ... so I am not much help in thinking of creative ways to capture autumn colors. I agree with the other post about the image being somewhat "busy". My experience has been that when I get up close and personal with trees the appearance of the image often comes out looking a bit too much like looking at camouflage. I read somewhere that an overcast day works better because you do not have to contend with all of the bright mottled spots of sunlight which necessitates that everything else has to be overly dark or the bright spots blown out. From the images that I most often see, it appears that shooting a grove of colorful trees from a distance using a medium to wide angle lens is effective, as well as really close up shots of colorful leaves. A nice small stream and waterfall also are nice if you have one handy in your accessory bag.

Last year at this time, we were in Yosemite which normally is not known for its autumn colors, but everybody who lived and worked there said that it was the most colorful autumn that anyone has recalled seeing. I was in ProPhotoRGB nirvana and went hog wild photographing trees ... and out of the hundreds of shots, I got lucky on a handful of them. In fact, I think that the best one of them was one that I processed as a B/W.

Thanks for the response Bill

I remember doing a retouch on that photo of yours.