Capture Beautiful Autumn Scenes with your Digital Camera

Digital Photography Tips Complementary Guide

 

 

Autumn is the season where there is great inspiration to take photos with the many tawny colours of fallen leaves … imagine pathways scattered with nature’s beauty … beds of yellows, reds, browns … the scene is set and it’s so appealing to capture this autumn feeling.  Let’s have a look at some digital photography tips to help you plan your shooting …

 

 

Shoot After Sunrise and Before Sunset

 

You maybe aware of this already, but taking your photos either early morning or later in the evening will give you the best depth of colour.  At these times, the sun is at its furthest point and you will get some great looking shots capturing shadows.  In other words your pictures will look more 3-D but will also have better detail - as opposed to you taking shots at mid-day if the sun is bright and overhead … then you are likely to capture bleached out and flat-looking photos.

 

 

Explore

 

Plan your destination … if you are staying at a bed and breakfast for a few days this would be ideal, as it will give you great opportunities to explore the surrounding areas.  Finding areas off the beaten track, away from tourists, you may spot a lake or wood which will be so exciting to photograph.  I remember a small vacation I took in the Lakeland in UK … Skelghyll Woods … there was an abundance of great shots to be had at the time … some examples shown below.  I also felt that when I was taking the shots, I could have been in any period of time … a timeless experience captured!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moving further down to Lake Windermere, it was quite a dull day, and light was waning at the time, but I managed to capture which appears quite a spooky looking shot of a lonely tree at one edge of the lake, just a normal shot with no special effects, but capturing the ‘mood’ … no one else was around at that time!  Here’s the shot …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t Stay in One Area

 

Never take all your shots just in one area … you are limiting yourself to what you can find.  It’s exciting to move about, checking to see what might be your best ever shot yet. Look around to get the best composition, as you may find one scene that looks pretty, may look even better if you move around, either to a higher or lower point.

 

 

Capture an Array of Images

 

It’s great to take some knockout-looking landscapes, but bear in mind also to capture some abstract shots and close-ups.  Nature looks very interesting this way too.  Whilst walking in my local park, I found a striking maple leaf which was lying on the ground … to get a clearer shot I used a pale flat surface with natural lighting next to a window ...here’s that shot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be Patient but Have Fun

 

Don’t feel you’ve got to snap every inch of your travels … I remember taking walks around the woods in the Lakeland, and as the lighting changed over the day, on the walk back, I captured some moody shots, which I obviously didn’t see earlier in the day, example below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall, I hope these digital photography tips may prove useful to you, have some great fun and you will enjoy it all the more.

 

 

 

Wishing you All the Best with your shots!

 

 

 

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