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 Trees With Intentional Camera Movement
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 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 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…
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…
