Today was the perfect day for an autumnal shoot. I decided to go to the Forest Recreation Ground and Arboretum park, both places very close to Nottingham's city centre. The golden tones were glorious and I took plenty of photos.
I almost exclusively used my ultra-wide angle lens for today's shoot; it's such fun to use! In post-processing I deliberately chose a warmer white balance to bring out the reds and oranges.
Today's shoot again reminded me of the need for a set of filters. I had to take many of my shots more than once, as I tried to use a shutter speed that either didn't make the sky overblown or the foreground too dark. Practically all of today's photos required the sky's exposure to be reduced and the foreground's exposure to be increased in Adobe Lightroom, and some could not be salvaged. If you want to see the other photos I was happy with, they're on my Flickr page ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikdaddy/).
Semi-professional photographer based in Nottingham, England, I shoot mainly events and weddings. I'll be posting my work using my Fujis - X100S and X-Pro1.
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I really like the colours in this. :-) How do you change the white balance in post-processing? I've got a few photos where they came out too grey, but once I changed the WB on the camera, I got the colours right. The image on the first one was better though, so I'd like to be able to fix it if I could.
lovely, and extremely warm shot. How did you acheived that toning with white balance? Increase the color temperature? I usually just go with what the camera chose of one of the standard settings 'sunny' cloudy, etc. Great shot Vik.
@harvey Hey Steve, all you need to do is select a white balance that would naturally make your colours 'warmer'. So if it's a sunny day, select cloudy. Play around with them, that's the best way of achieving it. You don't have to select the white balance that best fits if you're trying to achieve a different 'feel'.
We can take probably the most gorgeous photos in autumn.
Really god job!