Autumn trees are usually photographed for their detail. Photographers wait for colorful foliage, search for the perfect light, choose an aperture that keeps the scene sharp, and carefully prevent camera movement. Intentional Camera Movement asks you to do almost the…
How to Photograph Autumn Leaves With an iPhone
Autumn leaves are almost irresistible to photograph. The colors are already dramatic, the subjects are everywhere, and an iPhone makes it easy to stop and take a photo whenever something catches your eye. Yet colorful leaves don’t automatically make a…
How to Photograph Fall With a 50mm Lens
Fall can make photographers want to carry every lens they own, but one of the most useful ways to photograph autumn is to simplify the outing and take only a 50mm lens. A 50mm prime encourages a different kind of…
How to Photograph Foggy Fall Landscapes
Fog can make an autumn landscape look quieter, deeper, and more mysterious than it does on a clear day. Bright foliage no longer competes with every tree, hill, building, and distant detail. Instead, the landscape begins to disappear in stages….
How to Photograph Fall Leaves Up Close
A hillside covered in red and gold can command attention from half a mile away, but some of the most fascinating autumn photographs are small enough to fit in your hand. Move close to a single leaf and the season…
How to Photograph Fall With a Telephoto Lens
Fall landscapes often encourage photographers to reach for a wide-angle lens. After all, when an entire hillside turns gold, orange, crimson, and burgundy, the instinct is to fit as much of it as possible into one frame. A telephoto lens…
How to Photograph Fall Foliage in the Rain
Rain does not ruin fall foliage photography. In many situations, it creates colors, textures, reflections, and atmosphere that don’t exist on a dry autumn afternoon. A red maple covered in water behaves differently in front of the camera. Dark bark…
How to Photograph Falling Leaves
A falling leaf gives you very little time. One moment it is attached to a branch. Seconds later, a gust of wind catches it, sends it spinning through the air, and drops it somewhere completely different from where you expected….
How to Photograph Fall Reflections
Autumn gives photographers something no other season offers quite as dramatically: an entire landscape of color that can appear twice in a single photograph. A red maple beside a pond becomes two red maples. Golden trees reflected across dark water…
Fall Photography Ideas at Home
Fall doesn’t have to be happening outside your front door to photograph it. Some of the season’s richest colors, textures, shadows, and stories can be created on a kitchen table, beside a window, on a staircase, or in a quiet…
How to Photograph Fall Activities With an iPhone
Fall photography does not have to begin and end with colorful trees. Some of the season’s most memorable photographs happen while something is actually taking place: flour covering the kitchen counter while someone bakes an apple pie, hands reaching for…
How to Edit Fall Photos Without Oversaturating Colors
Fall photographs invite heavy editing. Red leaves could look a little redder. Golden trees might appear more impressive with extra warmth. Orange foliage can seem as though it needs more intensity, and before long the Saturation slider has moved much…
Fall Photography Composition Ideas
Fall can give photographers almost too much to work with. Trees turn yellow, orange, crimson, and burgundy. Leaves cover paths and sidewalks. Morning fog moves between branches. Puddles reflect colorful canopies. Pumpkins appear on porches, people return to coats and…
Fall Foliage Photography Settings
Fall foliage can look extraordinary in front of you and surprisingly ordinary once you review the photograph. Sometimes the reds lack detail. Other days, the golden leaves look softer than expected. A forest that seemed rich and warm may appear…
How to Photograph Fall Colors
Few seasons transform an ordinary landscape as dramatically as fall. A familiar road suddenly becomes lined with gold. Green hills shift toward rust and amber. Individual leaves catch the sun like pieces of stained glass, while wet forests become richer…
What Is Reciprocity Failure in Film Photography
Your light meter says 10 seconds. You carefully place the camera on a tripod, focus, set the aperture, open the shutter for exactly 10 seconds, and expect a correct exposure. When the film comes back from the lab, however, the…
How to Focus a Manual Film Camera for Sharp Photos
Focusing a manual film camera can feel surprisingly uncertain the first time you look through the viewfinder. You may not have an autofocus point, confirmation beep, face detection, or magnified preview. Instead, you see a small circle, shimmering patch, split…
35mm vs 120 Film: What’s the Difference
Two rolls can contain the same film emulsion, share the same ISO, and still produce noticeably different photographs simply because one is 35mm and the other is 120 film. The most important difference is negative size. A standard 35mm frame…
