Dancing leaves

[Hui Song]

Having enough color fall landscape photos, here are a few close up pictures of fall leaves. All these are capture in a overcast day. Hope I can get more moody leaves picture with better lighting .

#1


#2


#3


#4


#5

[ShaneS]

Hui Song, color me a bit envious of your fall colors! Living in Hawaii it is something that I truly miss.

My favorite of the bunch is #2 as I find the background and composition very pleasing.

[AB26]

Hi Hui,

What settings did you use? No 1-4 seem to be very saturated. Sometimes that is the result I get when shooting in Matrix Metering.

An overcast sky renders very good light for photography.

[Shadowman]

Very nice.

[Hui Song]

Hi Hui,

What settings did you use? No 1-4 seem to be very saturated. Sometimes that is the result I get when shooting in Matrix Metering.

An overcast sky renders very good light for photography.

Since it is a overcast day, I tried to find the a back light condition or extremely dark background. I used the spot meter on the leaves. Also, I shoot 3~7 brackets. The original fill o from camera are still too plan for me. I choose one or two exposure as starting point in LR. I move the "shadows" value lower to darken the background. For the saturation, in stead of making it higher for the whole picture, I adjust it individually for each warm color: orange, yellow, green higher. Maybe they are over saturated.

I did try to merge HDR file for these leaves to gain vivid color. But the leaves moved too much, most of the HDR leaves picture are unusable. The #2 is a HDR image.

[Hui Song]

Shane, John, Thanks for your comments.