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Amazing Acer

It always amazes me how wonderful the colour is without any extra processing

It always amazes me how wonderful the colour is without any extra processing
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Dec, 2014

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great composition

Thank you Richard...no need for photoshop with an acer around ...k

Great photo with wonderful color and point of view.

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Beautiful Kathleen!

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lovely vibrant colors!

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Great Autumn Shot!

Love that autumn feel factor.

Beautiful. Love the Colours

Beautiful colours and bokeh!!

Great fall colors!

great frame.. sharp and clear

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voted Photog 6

love the colours voted goodluck

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Such a lovely colour this time of year :-)

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nice detailing, voted

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Great colors!

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This is so beautiful and very autumn. Great photography.

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Love the rich colors in this photo, well done!

Thanks to you...and all the other lovely folk who commented..k

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Beautiful capture

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Nicely composed

Great entry...voted

Lovely shot Kathleen

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Beautiful and I like the fact that you didn't do any extra processing. It takes away from the original nature of the picture

This is lovely!

beautiful composition Kathleen !!

Remarkable image of fall. Voted Photographer rod the month!

Thank you..k

Great capture

Thanks so much......k

Love this time of year !

tHANKS A LOT..K

Beautiful colors

Thank you

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Maples are beautiful trees in the fall - great capture of the leaves against the sky - voted Photographer of the Month

Love the color, and the feeling of openess around the leaves.

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this is a really beautiful photo.

Very pretty!! voted Kathy

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love this, so vibrant, ps - voted

Great photo and wonderful entry - Voted

very nice, voted

Very pretty, voted Monthly Pro Vol 7

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Lovely entry...voted

Perfect, voted Monthly ProVol 7

...stunning colour, beautiful ...voted Monthly Pro :-)

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love the color!!

Congrats Fall 2020 award

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Behind The Lens

Location

I didn't need to go far to take this photo. When my husband and I got married, he asked me what special gift I would like ,to mark the day. I had seen some stunning Acer saplings in the Clyde valley nurseries .So I said it would be lovely to buy one and plant it in our garden. It was small, but survived being moved from one house to another years later. Not only survived, but thrived as you can see. It has wonderful shades of colour from Spring till Autumn, when it looks like this, above. It has grown tall and even in Winter has this flash of red on the bare stems. The moral of this is.. that nature is lovely and we ought to care for it. And also as photographers we do not need to go far to find a lovely subject to photograph.

Time

It was early evening around 8 pm on an October day. The weather was dry and beginning to cool. The sun was slipping toward the horizon . The leaves in the woodland next to my house were sparkling and dancing .. and displayed in many shades of gold and rust and red. I went out with the camera and set it up in a clearing on the tripod. After taking a number of shots ,I turned back to the house. Immediately the Acer at the edge of my garden caught my attention. The whole plant seemed a blaze of colour. I stopped and set up again to take this shot.

Lighting

I believe that the reason I stopped by this plant, is because it was absolutely suffused with evening light . That critical golden moment, in the golden hour. Living where weather is uncertain and changeable, makes a photographer get outside when it is possible to go. I cannot always depend on perfect light .In some shots where the clearing is darker, I have used an off camera flash . Luckily, I did not need to do that for this image. The light is natural and lovely .Light outside is often gentler and in my opinion kinder on natural colour.

Equipment

This picture was taken using a Canon 650D and a 18-55mm lens. Flash was not required. It was on my tripod and angled upward at around a 45 degrees.

Inspiration

I had been doing some indoor shots, when I realised the weather had improved and the trees in the nearby woods caught my eye. The woodland is mixed and had a variety of very different leaf shapes, sizes and autumn colour. That drew me outside... and I had a lovely half hour taking quite a variety of shots of leaves, bark and woodland paths. The light and shade were a big part of my decision to go there .After some time it was getting darker in the clearing, so I went back toward my garden. The immediate view of the Acer in the fading sunlight made me stop .I took about 30 shots at different angles . This is the one I liked best.

Editing

There was no post processing at all. I liked the shot as it was. The colour and light and contrast and shade seemed true to the real plant ,so I decided to keep it natural. Who can improve on Nature?

In my camera bag

I have a great camera bag from Calumet, which holds all a photographer could need when out taking landscape images, which I enjoy. It can be slung over the shoulders. I take two Canon cameras .The 650 D and 1100D .I use a good quality prime lens which can be set up on one camera ,while the other has a 55-250 lens should I need it. I started doing this, after I was almost caught out when the Eagle Owl came out of the blue. I have a tripod for one and use the other hand held. I have good lens wipes from an optical glass supplier..Very useful if you are in a smoky atmosphere. I have a level to keep shots straight when required .I carry extension rings and some filters . A wide angle and super wide angle lens and macro lens are usually included .My family got me a wonderful leather harness which is strong and can carry two cameras on hooks and a bag of lenses/filters. Invaluable if you have to hike or climb to take the shot .And I always have extra memory cards and spare batteries. Oh, and a good torch.

Feedback

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Amazing Acer

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