Color
 

Color! Surely, someone has some fall foliage photographs to share for the year? I'd love to see 'em, since we don't get fall in Florida.

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Right now my laptop (with all pics on it) is with a grad student at SFN, but I've taken some new commute shots to show the change in seasons. Will post as soon as I can :)

Good point Kitsune!.....

Tonight I will be sure to photograph our fall leaves during the sunset, it lights the world up (and the leaves) in a soft pink... this is awesome.....will do Kitsune! I should be doing it anyway.

The drought is giving us a pretty brown fall this year in the mid-Atlantic region. No decent color to speak of.

Well I'll throw some out here for you all. Went hiking con mi padre this past weekend in Mihocan State Park. Enjoy.

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Awesome Bullitt :)

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Howzat? First 4 are from the local rec center. Not the best day weather-wise, but the trees were at the peak of their color, I just had to stop and snap a few. most thought I was nuts -it's not in the most picturesque of locations.

Last 4 are on daughter's field trip at Waterloo Bog, a half hour further west of here.

Arizona sunset.

Thank ya ma'am!

Not sure what these are.

Monster -- what types of trees are those in the first set of pictures?

Pie -- love the sunset.

Looks like maple to me.

I thought they were maples, but I wasn't sure. I'm pretty awful with tree names. The first time I remember seeing a maple tree was during a trip to Georgia, two or three years ago, so I'm still easily confused. :o

yes, Maple

Look like Narcissus and Forget-me-nots.

Thanks, monster. Love your maple -- I had one like that outside my bedroom while I was growing up.

Kitsune, you punk. You stole my idea. Just for that I'm gonna flood your thread with *my* color. Ha!

Fall color in the Pacific Northwest. Washington is rightly called the Evergreen State, but it is not called the Onlygreen state. I call this one Speeding Trees.

Enjoy!



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That's really cool looking V.

Here are mine...
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The death of a leaf:



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I learned soon after how to operate the manual focus on the camera.

jinx:

Thank you for the kind words. Yours are beautiful, well composed, and *in focus*. I could learn from you.

Doh -- "great minds..." and all that. We need a b&w thread, I think, at some point. I just need to go shoot stuff to fill it with.

I love the blue/green/yellow in your Speeding Trees shot! Wonderful motion blur, too.

These are all great! Jinx, your first one makes me want to paint. Bullitt, you are so cute. V, as always, your pictures speak volumes about your appreciation for aesthetic beauty. Thanks for sharing these, everyone.

BigV I like the action shot.

Thank you, thank you, and thank *you*. (how incredibly gratifying!)

Another drive by, while returning from lunch with Tink:


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Thanks ma'am :D
Just visited your little painting website, you've got some awesome stuff there! I love "10th Street", I would seriously consider buying that if I saw it in person.

I'm a sucker for the closeups (told you I learned to focus the camera)

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And the wide shots

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Posted elsewhere, but deserves to be here, I love this picture.

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Colorado doesn't really have fall colors, just fall color.

I'm including two types of fall color shots.

I love the fractal nature of HLJ's first pic.
It's so perfect it almost looks computer generated.

SNOW Fall
 

I just checked the EXIF data on the second picture; it was taken the first day of winter (Dec. 21). But we had more snow than that last year the week before Halloween.

Great shots guys.

My word, HLJ...

The top shot is incredible! I have ... a couple dozen of that same shot. I think you and I walk through the woods the same way... But none of mine are that lovely. Thank you for the beautiful pictures.

You all are so talented. I wish I could give photography a shot (pun not intended.) I have no idea if I would be any good. Isn't there so much to learn?

It's a snap.

Seriously, if you have a digital camera you've got free trial and error learning.
Your local public library will have a few how-to books.

I've thought about saving for a camera. I would love to learn to use a "real" camera, but for starting with a digital what are things one looks for? I would want to get one I could learn on, but not one complicated to start. If I find I suck at it I don't want too much invested. When I've looked at them I have no idea what the basics are.

Even the "real" digital cameras have an automatic mode that does all the thinking for you. The fun comes when you learn how a camera works and you override its little chip brain to get exactly the image you were looking for.

I know there is a thread somewhere about some of the Cellarite cameras. Maybe I should look for that.

Though automatic would be a place to start I'm interested in learning what you said, glatt, about getting the image you want and not what the camera thinks you want.

Like I said, I guess there is a lot to learn. Of course (and duh to me) I could look into the equipment requirements for photography classes here at the college and save up to get one so I could take the class (tuition would be waived.)

:)

I agree with the previous statements about digital cameras being good for learning - at least those that allow you to adjust shutter speed and aperture settings. It's instructive to take several pictures of the same subject, while, for example, changing the aperture to see what effect it has on depth of field/depth of focus. I think this was discussed a little bit in a previous thread, perhaps by Bullitt.

You don't have to start big either Shawnee. If it's film you're interested in, there are plenty of low cost options out there. In high school, I used my mom's old Canon slr from her days in college back in the 70's with a prime (non zoom) lens and it taught me a ton about learning the fundamentals of photography. Composure, etc.

Most college photo classes I am aware of require a film slr. If you just want to experiment shooting around, there are many cheap but quality Canon digital point and shoots available. Canon is pretty good at giving you great images in Auto Mode, but also allowing you a good deal of exposure control when you want it. Sometimes the little cameras are somewhat limited in their abilities however, your mileage will vary.

This might be the thread you're thinking of.

Cool, I subscribed so I can check it out later.

Thanks guys.

Only color I got from today.

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Shooting?

Nah -- just found them outside a workshop.

I couldn't coax color out of anything else while out and about, today.

Deja Vu View.......

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Nature! Mother Nature! - And what about Dad?

That must be the "Woody" woods?

There's still a fair bit of green here.

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Happy Monkey, you take some nice pictures. I like the third one the best. It reminds me of the little girl's red coat in Schindler's List, but with a far less gruesome ending of course. Beautiful pictures. Thank you!

No leaves (I'll get onto that soon) but plenty of color.

If you fold 1,000 paper cranes and hang them at a shrine, you get to make a wish. I guess wishing that you never see another bloody crane might be quite common.

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Color here seems to be white :D

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So much snow! ::shiver:: Were those taken recently, Razz?

The third picture... is that a creek or a road?

That was Monday, on my way to work, and yep...that's a road.

(streakiness due to my stupid useless windshield wipers)

Wow! Great pics.

Those roads are scary.

Traction? We don't need no stinkin' traction.