With the best fall colours past their prime, let’s think about macro or small scale photography of fall colour. There are so many beautiful compositions to be had in small arrangements of decaying fall leaves and general nature litter. So let’s think small (and not necessarily ultra macro)
Here is the link to today’s presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlVlBc5Uwmw&t=3s
From my trip last week to Lake O’Hara. From google: “A bonnet mushroom, genus Mycena. Sitting among a miniature subalpine forest-floor. The green carpet immediately around the mushroom is predominantly moss. The small rounded to oval leaves with reddish autumn coloration look very much like bilberry/blueberry-type plants (Vaccinium). The little upright evergreen-looking shoots could include very young conifer growth or another small-leaved alpine/subalpine evergreen.”
1/90 sec @ f6.8, ISO 400
Taken with a 38 mm lens and crop din substantially. Crop shown in the first comment.
Edited in Lightroom
The original photograph – I didn’t have a macro lens with me.
Wow. Amazing. Love the depth of field control.
Colourful leaves on one of our walks. Enhanced in Photoshop Camera Raw to match my perception of those colours. They were drab in the RAW image.
More fall colours. Taken with my 35 mm macro lens. In a fairly dark shaded area f/10, ISO 2000, 1/400 sec. Used Photoshop Camera Raw to reduce noise. Adjusted sliders to achieve colour intensity the way I remember it.
Pine buds I think called ‘candles’ on my backyard tree. Look carefully in the middle of photo and you will see a miniature T-Rex trapped in liquid bubble.
Shot with Nikon 105 mm macro lens and cropped slightly to approx. 95% of original. F/4; 1/80 sec.; ISO 400
Ladybug resting on the blade of a nascent garlic shoot. It was very cooperative (it was cold so not very active). Shot with Nikon 105 mm macro lens and cropped extensively to aprrox. 15% of original. F/4; 1/80 sec.; ISO 400
original shot
Western Honeybee landing on a Chrysanthemum flower. These flowers are late bloomers so we get some vibrant fall colours in the garden.
Shot with Olympus Stylus 1. f/4.0, 1/1000 sec
small leaves at the side of the path ,I have darkened the background ISO 400 40mm 1/100 f5.6
similar small branch ISO 400 40mm f5.65 1/80
There are still some butterflies around. Taken at Inglewood. FL 400mm, F6.3, S 1/2500, ISO 1000, WB Auto Matrix Metering
Macro with the s25
Another leaf rip
Early one morning this leaf was on my deck.
Taken with my iphone
I wasn’t sure if I preferred the picture cropped.
Taken with my iphone
Small (?) branch of leaves in Griffith Woods. I liked the color contrast (enhanced a touch)
Taken with cell phone
Taken in Glenmore park with cell phone
a leaf on the sidewalk on the way to the harbour in Halifax. Taken with my iphone.
iso 200, 121mm, f1.8@1/140s. Minor post processing and cropping on iphone.
Red-twig Dogwood in Fish Creek Park.
f/3.5, 1/500 sec, fl 300 mm, ISO 160
Cropped and brightened the shadows using Snapseed.
leech needles in Confederation Park taken with iPhone
liked the pattern on this leafˆßø 3200.f/5.8. 1/25sec
Lincoln’s Sparrow contemplating a move south as it hangs onto fall foliage. ISO 800, 500mm, f/7.1, 1/2000 sec. Lightly edited in Lightroom Classic