5 posts tagged “leaves”

 

Oh no, not more leaves!

I think this leaf obsession is getting tiresome. My photography class colleagues are too polite to say but I'm sure they would like to see pictures of something else. Anything else!

 

 

Well this is the last bunch. The maple leaves are now all off the trees and rotting on the ground so I won't be taking any more leafy pictures until they grow back next spring.

I'm thinking of moving on to photographing water. The winter monsoons started this week and for the next five or six months it's going to be pretty hard to take pictures outdoors that don't include water.

I might try photographing some rocks too. Wet rocks. Wet rocks with leaves on them.

These colourful trees are Bigleaf Maple. This area where we live now has lots and lots of these trees all over the place. This photo was taken at Mason's Beach on Shawnigan Lake.

This sea gull shot is just a so-so picture but I included it in my homework because there are a few aspects of it that I particularly like - the fact that I was able to get close enough to the sea gulls to take a decent picture, capturing one bird in flight, and the angle of the concrete boat launch across the bottom of the picture.

They are considered a weedy nuisance here but I have always liked Ivy so I couldn't resist taking pictures when I found this enormous ivy bush taking over a fence and wall.

 

 

I did ferns last week and here is another one this week. The green frond contrasts with the orange fallen maple leaves in the background.

More maple tree leaves below.

 

Also, a picture of Ingot from across the road. I worked hard scrambling up a muddy slope through 4-foot alder saplings, getting scratched by prickly bushes, fighting with my camera's exposure settings while the sun peeked in and out of clouds to get this picture and I'm still not happy with it. I am going to try again on a cloudy day. Too bad all the leaves have fallen off that maple tree since I took this picture.

Show us the loveliest flower in your garden.
Submitted by Allio's blog.

This is a King Kong Coleus. I love the colours on the leaves! The helpful lady at the garden centre told me that I would only need one of these in my 3-foot long planter since it would grow that big, no problem. We'll see.

 

The leaves on the Beech tree in our front yard display an amazing range of colours, sometimes shifting magically from brilliant green to deep maroon and back within a single day in the spring and summer. During the last two weeks there was a particularly spectacular display of yellow and orange and copper as the leaves changed colour and started to fall.

The last two photos were taken just one day apart, yesterday and today. We had a big wind last night and almost all the leaves were blown away. There are only a few firmly attached ones left, still more greenish-yellow than the orange and copper colours they turn before they fall.

There are several ways you can show texture in your photographs:

• take pictures of textured things (my tree trunks)
• help the viewer imagine how something feels by showing someone touching a textured surface, e.g., a mother stroking her baby's cheek
• choose a textured paper or surface to print the image on (matte or glossy paper, art papers, fabric, plastic, etc.)
• add a textured frame to complement or contrast with the image
• modify the image with software

These photos show a couple of the things you can do with Photoshop Elements. These first two are the before and after images of lichen on a tree trunk. The colour change and addition of grain make the lichen look dry and gritty.

 

The second set shows what you can do with the "plastic wrap" effect in Photoshop Elements. The leaf looks like it's actually floating in water doesn't it!