Autumn leaves Loch Awe
by Gary Eason
Title
Autumn leaves Loch Awe
Artist
Gary Eason
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
Vivid orange-red fall autumn leaves along the water's edge in the foreground, with a clump of bare branched trees in the middle distance and clouds over mountains in the background.
Often described as "like a painting", this is how it was made:
I was actually waiting for the light to improve: it was a dull, heavily overcast morning, but with the promise of something better if I just waited. In fact I was there for almost an hour and, if anything, it got worse: by the time I'd upped the ISO to 1600 I knew it was time to move on!
Without the light in the foreground to bring out the vivid colour of the dead leaves this falls flat. But exposing for that left the trees rather lifeless and the sky totally washed out. So an HDR treatment was crucial to the overall effect that I wanted � of a bright autumnal detail in the bigger landscape. The grey cloud to the left balances with the sweep of trees to the right.
I exposed a burst of shots, bracketed from -2 to +2 EV. I afterwards merged three to give a greater dynamic range, using Lightroom and Photomatix Pro.
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June 14th, 2012
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