Photographing autumn leaves

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Autumn can be captured in many different ways. Mushrooms are an obvious subject, of course. Leaves are a great subject too. The plan was to do more with them.

I wrote an article at the beginning of autumn with ideas for inspiration. One of these was photographing leaves. I said that I intended to get started with them.

Autumn leaves can be captured in several ways. You can photograph them in the woods while they are still hanging from the trees. You can also photograph them after they have fallen.

I went looking for beautiful leaves to photograph. Just at home, using a small lamp for lighting. After all, making an intention is pointless if you do nothing with it.

Photographing leaves is not very difficult. You place them somewhere and take a photograph. The light can quickly become flat, though. Details are not very visible.

That changes when you shine light through the leaves. Then all the details are clearly visible. The veins, the imperfections... In short, the structure of the leaves really comes to life.

I hung up the leaves and photographed them. A flower press makes it possible to flatten them. Even so, after an initial attempt I used focus bracketing.

I used the result in a collage. Somehow, it says more than a single leaf in the photograph. I chose to use leaves from one tree per collage.

This type of photography is fun to do. It is not very difficult either. You can do it indoors, in the warm, dry surroundings of a living room. An evening is soon well spent.

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