Fall is easy to photograph beautifully, but surprisingly difficult to photograph differently. Brilliant foliage, warm light, fallen leaves, and seasonal color naturally attract the camera. Yet those same subjects appear in thousands of photographs every autumn. Creating something memorable requires…
How to Photograph Fall Colors on an Overcast Day
Gray skies can look disappointing when you arrive at a beautiful autumn location, especially when you imagined sunlight glowing through red and golden leaves. Yet an overcast day can be one of the best opportunities to photograph fall colors. Without…
How to Photograph Fall Foliage in Harsh Sunlight
Bright midday sunshine has a bad reputation in landscape photography. Strong overhead light can create pale highlights on leaves, nearly black shadows beneath trees, distracting reflections, deep contrast, and colors that seem less impressive in a photograph than they looked…
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…
