One of the many things I’ve forced myself to do over the years when in the heat of the moment photographing a subject, particularly one that is right in your face, is to take a moment to pull myself away to see things I might be missing. Last week when photographing fall color in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains it was easy to get pulled into photographing stands of Aspen trees, but it took effort to stop and look around. Often photographing the most obvious subject can blind you to other great subjects. Once I got a few photos in of the very colorful Aspen trees I turned my attention to the forest floor. Beneath my feet was a photographic gold mine of colorful Aspen leafs. Switching gears I focused my efforts on macro photography and came away with the following photo of Aspen leafs of varying color in filtered sunlight.
Macro of Aspen leafs with fall color
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Great shot Jim. Usually landscapes and action excite me the most so I skip over the smaller stuff but I certainly enjoy seeing photos like this in other photographers work.
Nice work, Jim. I agree with your point about looking past the obvious when shooting subjects like autumn aspens – it is just so darn hard to do sometimes when you come on one of those blazing golden groves!
Earlier you mentioned that you had visitied some locations about a week after I was there, and I jokingly accused you of using me as a free location scout. I may have turned the tables this time. Turns out that today’s photo at my blog is one in which I also took “a moment to pull myself away to see things I might be missing,” and focused on the smaller details. (here)
Take care,
Dan
I love looking for relationships between objects in patterns like this. We can learn so much by looking at the color and shape relationships right at our feet. Sometimes it pays off to take a break from the grand landscapes to look at the smaller one. I like the light on this, it gives this type of shot a different character than I am used to.