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Autumn Foliage Photography
ven if nature photography is not your passion, preferring instead sports, fashion, portraiture, architecture, or street photography, I would think it’s difficult to see beautiful autumn colors and not take pictures of them. Dazzling color is just too alluring. To capture the best images of fall color, you need to look for several key elements. Being aware of these will make a huge difference in your work.
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Lighting The best lighting conditions for shooting fall colors is soft and diffused natural light. I know this is counterintuitive because many photographers think bright sunlight brings out the intensity and richness of the colors. However, this isn’t true as you can see in the image below. Bright sunlight is too contrasty, and unwanted contrast adversely affects the saturated colors of leaves. Forest colors even look good
