It’s that time of year again when as either a professional or amature photographer when you can go out and test and experiment with your cameras. One of the favourite classes I believe with any lecture is to offer students the chance to go out and explore what the daylight can offer. Autumn, as the leaves turn golden and the sunlight becomes more yellow the colour varieties to capture are vast. One of my prefered styles when photographing scenes in the woods is to shoot into the sun. This is much easier at this time of year due to the sun being less strong than in summer, lower in the sky and you can hide it behind various parts of the trees to produce a glow effect. This in turn also creates some wonderfull shadow detail. In one of these photos it demonstates how the shadows of the trees are laying down towards the photographer and making a scene into a mystic dance of colour and shapes on the ground. The beauty of it all is that once captured the possability of the same scene reappering the next day in the same spot is greatly reduced.
So when you have time to spare go out and photograph the wonders of this time of year. I often do to keep up a library of images should I need to refer to them at some point in the future. And if a client needs an image for a project and the choice is to obtain from a library source or refer to my stock pile it serves the purpose. I also do it because its great exercise and I love finding new places to capture on camera. Tha’ts why!