Autumn colours
Make full use of lenses and composing techniques to capture the beauty of the season, writes Izwan Ismail
IF you go for a holiday in the northern hemisphere this time of the year until early December, you will have a lot of opportunities to capture the colourful season of autumn.
It’s the time when leaves turn from green to red and yellow, before making way for winter.
Autumn add vibrant colours to all your photos.
Here are five tips that can help you take better autumn photos.
1. CONTRAST: Take a look at blue skies and compose as hot that includes the contrasting colours of blue and yellow.
2. REFLECTION: Reflections always makes good photos, what more if vibrant red and yellow trees are reflected on still waters like lakes and ponds.
I took this photo of a group of trees reflected on a lake at a park in Oslo, Norway. The still water gave a perfect mirror reflection of the trees, as well as of the concrete bridge on the right.
3. FOCUS ON LEAVES: Autumn is all about the leaves turning into red, orange or yellow. Use the single point focus and aim at one or a group of leaves.
Set the lens aperture to the largest opening like 1.8 to 2.8 so that you’ll get that nice creamy bokeh in the background. If possible, make use of the available light to give that glowing effect.
I shot these Japanese Maple leaves in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Japan.
4. WIDE-ANGLE LENS: It’s a must-have lens when you travel because it allows a good perspective of the scenery.
In this photo, I placed my camera with a 20mm wide-angle lens on the ground covered with yellow Gingko leaves, with the subjects in the middle of the frame to give a different composition.
5. FISHEYE LENS: This lens give a distorted but unique perspective to photos.
In this photo, the action of the boy kicking yellow Gingko leaves among the trees gives a nice impact to the picture.