How I Shot That - Clouds and a Falling Leaf
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| Get this Photo Sony a6000 / Sony 50mm f1.8 |
Every fall, these few tall trees around Riverside Park shed their leaves. It is the hight that gives me options. And that day the clouds were spotty and the wind was just enough to rest the light collector away from the branch.
Since it has so far to fall, the wind really carries it away. I get enough space away from the tree to take that out of the frame. And then I need to spend much of a day by this tree, running down leaves. Sometimes I need to spend multiple days in order to get the photo I want. This one, I had actually come back to the same place multiple afternoons to get the photo of a single leaf with the clouds in the background.
Something else that helped take this photo, was a new camera (at the time) that had a much better focus system than my old point and shoot bridge camera. This was from my Sony a6000. I used the 50mm f1.8 lens. The a6000 was made as a starting sports camera. So I was able to get my focus on the leaf pretty well. I also had to shoot pretty fast. So 11 frames a second was nice to have.
If you were to purchase this photo, the best way to do it justice would be on a large metal print. Think 12x18. That would be gorgeous.
Something else that helped take this photo, was a new camera (at the time) that had a much better focus system than my old point and shoot bridge camera. This was from my Sony a6000. I used the 50mm f1.8 lens. The a6000 was made as a starting sports camera. So I was able to get my focus on the leaf pretty well. I also had to shoot pretty fast. So 11 frames a second was nice to have.
If you were to purchase this photo, the best way to do it justice would be on a large metal print. Think 12x18. That would be gorgeous.
