Challenge Topic: Trees
Posting Date: Saturday, November 8, 2014
Online Background Information:
- Tree photography tips and tricks
- Ten top ways to photograph trees
- Ten tips for creative lone tree pictures
- Seven tips for fall photography
- Four tips for taking better photographs of trees
- 50 beautiful examples of tree photography
- 21 impressive tree images
Additional Tips and Suggestions:
There are countless ways to photographically celebrate trees. This month’s theme will let you be creative! Trees have not only served as valuable sources of products that enrich our lives, but they also have provided us inspiration and beauty throughout the centuries. In approaching this theme, draw upon the lessons learned in previous challenge themes. Consider dramatic light and shadow play, colorful and black & white representations, and composition variations.
Perhaps you want to feature a lone tree, striking in its simplicity on the landscape. You may want to feature a cozy forest scene instead. Trees can be featured in a starring role within your composition. Or, they can visually support and dramatically change the overall scene.
Tree components, such as leaves, branches, roots, canopies, nuts, blossoms, and bark, can present striking textural studies. Early morning and late afternoon hours this time of year provide golden light. Shadows can be exploited to create stunning silhouettes, particularly trees that have already lost their leaves for the season. Change up the vantage point of your camera by shooting up high or shooting down low.
Tree components, such as leaves, branches, roots, canopies, nuts, blossoms, and bark, can present striking textural studies. Early morning and late afternoon hours this time of year provide golden light. Shadows can be exploited to create stunning silhouettes, particularly trees that have already lost their leaves for the season. Change up the vantage point of your camera by shooting up high or shooting down low.
For extra fun, consider an artistic approach. Change your image with digital software to make it painterly in style. Application of a textured layer can also artfully compliment a composition.
The links listed above provide many examples and tips for capturing the beauty of trees. Please do some homework and take advantage of these learning resources!
Instructions:
Prepare one to three of your own photographic images that feature the subject of trees. You may use photos from your personal inventory or take new ones for this challenge. It’s your choice.
Please include any information or tips that may be of assistance to other participants (e.g., how you took the images, post-processing details, camera settings, what you learned). If you have more than one blog, please present your challenge photos on only one of them.
The linkup tool will be available the day before the challenge date (November 7) and a couple days thereafter. Don’t forget to set up a calendar reminder for yourself!
