Photography #11 : Autumn
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Well hello my friends and welcome back to another photography post, I do love photos! A few weeks ago now my dad took me to the Lickey Hills to wander around for a couple hours and take some autumnal snaps and this is what I got. I took most of them on my 1.8/50 prime lens on an aperture no higher than about 7. I mainly just explored with the different colours of the leaves and getting those creative angles. I'm so sure that colours and angles are my favourite parts of nature photography, capturing an array of tones within one precisely framed shot. Anyway... allow me to bless your eyes with my favourites from this day.
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| This stream was one of the first things we came across on the trail at the bottom of the Lickey Hills. It was nice to try out capturing water at different shutter speeds but this is my favourite from the stream because you can see the movement and bubbles in the water as well as the autumn leaves sitting along the rocks, which bring in colour to the scene. |
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| I do like an old wooden bench, I feel like they show age and a story - particularly ones with a memorial plaque on them. And the sea of orange surrounding this bench was too good not to take a photo of. |
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| Such orange, very autumn. |
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| I like these leaves because of their shape, spreading out like fingers on a hand. And the ombre they had as the green transitioned into red just before they were due to fall. I'm sure the ground is smothered in these leaves by now. |
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| It was mainly my dad who admired the moss on the trees but after he encouraged me to get a couple snaps, I began to admire the strange green texture too. |
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| I then thought I would try looking upwards at the leaves left on top of the tree. If I had to take this shot again I'd put it on a higher aperture to include more of the moss texture on the bark as well as the leafy roof. |
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| I then found quite a humongous leaf and decided to take some fun photos with it and my dad. It was lovely to allow something so simple be a source of entertainment for 10 minutes, taking it in turns to hide and peer from behind the leaf and laugh at each other. |
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| For this I changed to my standard zoom lens but still on aperture priority. I zoomed so that I could appear close to the mass of ducks but still able to keep my distance and not disturb their chill time. |
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| We drove to the top of the Lickey Hills and I put on my telephoto lens to get some landscape shots. This is my favourite out of the bunch because of the way the hills in the distance meet in the middle of the frame. By this point it grew colder, windier and cloudier so I quickly took the photos I wanted and escaped back into the warmth of the car (which meant these shots aren't as perfectly executed but hey we live and learn) while dad stopped to chat to an old colleague, who was walking his dog. |
As always, let me know which ones are your favourites and feel free to @ me on twitter or instagram so I can see some of your autumn snaps too before we head into winter. Winter photography is something I'm yet to try as I know the moist, cold air isn't a good friend to cameras but I will most likely get plenty of festive photos over the Christmas season to share with you all.
Cheerio loved ones - Beky x
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