more fall colors - and share yours, too!

Andy

okay the other thread was getting a bit long... let's start another one! here are some fall shots, taken today in westchester county, ny. about 35 miles north of nyc, the water you see here is part of the croton reservoir system, it's the main water supply for the city of new york. shot under cloudy skies, about 430pm local time. shot in raw with canon 20d, 16-35 f/2.8L or 35 f/1.4 L aboard. in post, i only did minor curves adjustment for some added pop, and then a velvia action at about 40 or 50%.






enjoy (the warmth of autumn) photography,

John Mueller

Fall colors
Here are a few of mine.

Andy

john:
stunning!

cowgirl21

Nice shots to both of you!! In Missouri, We have not really gotten the beautiful colors yet and I'm not sure if we will this year. Bummer. I 'll go out tommorrow and try to find some color.

pathfinder

A couple more shots of autumn colors....

Andy

pathfinder
beautiful mustardy/ochre colors. sweet.

andy

Andy

a few more from today
i had about 8 minutes of good light this afternoon, and fortunately, it was right in between birthday parties that my 5 year old boy was going to

wxwax

Beautiful work, Andy! And a perfect quote. I especially like the stone wall shot.

ian408

Andy/John,

Beautiful colors! You all are lucky to live in an area with real seasons.

Ian

lynnma

Beautiful shots Andy and all More leaves....

ginger_55

Andy, I like that particular group of photos particularly well.

I got a tree on the way to the train. A red tree. DC has gotten fall, even Sara mentioned, but that tree has been teasing me for a week, so we stopped. It is right in the middle of the road kind of.

I do like the group of fall colors you posted.

ginger

mun

wow the colours are so vibrant.
i was wondering that do you guys ps the pictures? or are these originals?

pathfinder

mun wrote:

wow the colours are so vibrant.
i was wondering that do you guys ps the pictures? or are these originals?

Most of these images have been post processed in Photoshop - but when you ask the question you are demonstrating that you do not understand that ALL DIGITAL images are processed either by the user or by the camera's settings when it produces a jpg or a tiff or a RAW file.

Got to http://www.luminous-landscape.com/ and read Michael Reichman's article for Adobe "Making the Transition From Film to Digital" and you will realize that all digital images have to be processed after being created by the light sensor - this is either done in camera or afterward by post processing. Post Processing just allows the shooter more control and creative lattitude.

In that vein, here is one more post processd image of Fall



And another from a G5

ginger_55

Tree Study 1
This is the same tree, photographed in five minutes on the way to the train station. I had been "eyeing" it all week. g

















g

Andy

thanks ginger, and to mun re postprocessing
pf is right -- you either do it yourself or let the camera do it. the last batch i just posted got the following

* raw conversion to jpg
* levels, or curves, for exposure fine tuning
* added color saturation (not much needed in this season!)
* usm

cheers,

andy

gubbs

gubbs

lynnma

ginger_55 wrote:

This is the same tree, photographed in five minutes on the way to the train station. I had been "eyeing" it all week. g

g

Lovely fall colors Ginger... it bothered me a bit tho straight away that the tops of the trees seemed cut off..:D
By the way.. do you have your computer back yet???
Lynn

Andy

gubbs and ginger


thanks

ginger_55

ginger_55 wrote:

This is the same tree, photographed in five minutes on the way to the train station. I had been "eyeing" it all week. g







Thanks, Lynn. The top one is my favorite, the emphasis being the leaves on the ground.

I did put the whole tree in, the problem was that the top of the tree had lost a lot of leaves, so this one is more photoshopped with some cloning to get the top without what looked like "sticks" sticking up. And I did this sometime in the wee hours last night. Just glad to be back on CS.

Yes, we have our computer back. Tomorrow we are getting a bunch more memory. That was a problem, also I had deleted something, also the spyware I couldn't get rid of, it was generally a sick computer.

I still perceive that I need more hard drive, the repair person said my hard drive is fine (Yes, and I have to take photos off all the time), but he said what I perceived as a hard drive problem was a RAM problem.

ginger

Gosh I wanted a nice day.:(:

ginger_55

re photoshop and the fall colors, just for kicks I up the red saturation a bit, and usually the yellow, too. By that time, well, no need for contrast or anything else.

I could show you the original of my tree, it is a beauty all by itself. In the shot with the whole tree I would not have saturated it so much, but was tired.

By upping the red, I feel I am controlling which color I "saw" when I looked at the tree (s). It is kind of light dependent, IMO. You know you see something, it looks gorgeous, photo it, and well, I have been disappointed. In photoshop I just try to edge the effect to what I thought I saw in the first place.

This past week, in DC, I was shooting in jpeg, not as much latitude, but that is what I did. And that is basically normal for me in post.

I often look to see if there is a color I want to emphasize, or not show so much of, and I control that either in saturation or in selective colors.

It is often yellow/green. I don't like green much. The more help I can get with the marsh shot, it is a "green" shot, so please feel free to comment. It is not my forte.

ginger (I mean the one I am working on for the challenge)

gubbs

more mushrooms!

lynnma

gubbs wrote:

tmlphoto

Dead Leaf
I managed to find the only dead leaf in south Georgia.

GREAPER

Andy

hey everyone!
y'all are putting up some really fine work thanks so much to all of you

here are some more from today's outing.... in post, not much, just levels or curves, and a color boost. the barn shot i developed two exposures, one for the scene and one for the sky. canon 20d, swans with my 70-200L f/2.8 i.s., the rest with my 35L f/1.4

GREAPER

tmlphoto wrote:

I managed to find the only dead leaf in south Georgia.

Nice shot...

and by the way, if you have a shortage of dead leaves, there is a monsterous pile of them in my front yard you can have. Shipping is your responsability.

GREAPER

andy wrote:

This is my favorite of that bunch. I like it a lot. The one with the swans is sweet as well.

Around here it is hard to find a nice barn that does't have a lot of JUNK around it, or other things built too close. I have had trouble finding barn shots I like.

Andy

greaper ...

GREAPER wrote:

This is my favorite of that bunch. I like it a lot. The one with the swans is sweet as well.

Around here it is hard to find a nice barn that does't have a lot of JUNK around it, or other things built too close. I have had trouble finding barn shots I like.

thanks greaper!

yes, but you do gots packo's!!!!!!!!!! mmmm mmm i think you should have one, tomorrow, for me. make it two, chili dogs, and put on a rerun of the old mud hens championship game

Andy

molson dog

Molsondog wrote:

It's too rainy to venture outdoors, but the window has fall in it.

yeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaa love it

Andy

one more from yesterday.
one more just found it