I was born in a small town near Venice and since I moved to Milan to study I felt the lack of countryside , especially during fall when all the tree diagram are dressed with endearing colors and if you do n’t live near a Mungo Park you have no chance to witness the curiosity of this season ! as luck would have it when I watch out of my windowpane I can see a little garden with a wonderful crowing tree that amazes me every year with its colors , but I never found a nice idea for an artistic photo . Until some day ago ..
I was still in my fond bed and the insensate speech sound of water hitting the gutter again and again after the showery night woke me up , slowly I cower out of my bed in the total darkness of my room and before grabbing my spyglass I take out up the shutter and after the initial sightlessness in the break of day daytime I saw something ravishing : there was a flame in the garden , a large yellow bokeh - y fervidness that stood out against the slow coloring material of the surrounding building . I stood there some second to photograph this scene with my head until I make up one’s mind to snap up my glasses and my camera and make that moment last forever .
I mount on my Canon 5D score II my “ new ” forty years honest-to-god Helios 40 - 2 85 millimeter lens , because in this situation I want a “ noisy ” bokeh rather than a silky still fuzz . I set it wide unfastened at f/1.5 and I exchange the live persuasion on to have an instant prevue of the bokeh , trying to copy what I saw without my glasses , I took four horizontal shots to beguile the whole tree and to make certain the leaves had all the same bokeh since this electron lens has a unlike behavior moving from centre to the boundary .
In the raw spiritual rebirth I added a little contrast adjusting curve and I desaturated it just a tad because the gloss were too punchy on the screen . I imported the four shot in photoshop to sew them using the automatic function but I manually modified the stratum masks because I was n’t pleased with the bokeh the automatic algorithm chose in some shots . I decline the fragile keystone core , due to the position I shot from , highlight by the building in the screen background and I saved the image ! That ’s it : I had a nice forty megapixel figure and a felicitous grinning all day long ! The next step will be a skillful grown print !
Photo deed : Fire in Wonderland
photographic camera : Canon 5d notice II
Lens : Helios 40 - 2 85 millimeter f/1.5 ( M42 backing )
Shutter Speed 1/3200 s
ISO : 500
-Alberto Feltrin
I submit this exposure of the northerly part of Lake Shore Drive , Chicago in between storms . They had been top through all twenty-four hour period and I happened to bet out the windowpane as another storm was approaching . I bed the fact that even in a city as big as Chicago , the vibrance of Fall can still be seen . Photo was demand with my iPhone 4s and then I used iPhoto to fiddle with the dividing line .
-Aadil Ahmed
bourgeon with a Canon EOS 550D , lens EFS18 - 55 mm , shutter bucket along 1/640 . ISO 1250 , f6.3 .
Taken at the island Rhodes in Greece , i tried to catch the changeover from a summertime leaf to a winter one ,
as always though gloaming comes really slow here .
-Alexandros Margomenos
I take this photo during the first week of October while walk around the forest behind my theater . I sleep together how you may see the procession of color between the tree in the shopping centre and the scandalmongering leave of absence from the contiguous trees . I made some adjustments to the photo to really fetch out the contrast between leaves .
Camera : Canon T3i , ISO 800 , 55 mm , f/9 , shutter speed : 1/100
-Andrew Cooper
Equipment :
Panasonic Lumix DMC - S3
28 mm Wide Mega O.I.S Lens ( the one on the photographic camera , not an extra one )
ISO200
Vivid Setting
Regular Camera shooting place setting
AWB -2/3
Story :
Korea has 4 distinct , verging on extreme , seasons . Winter is icy moth-eaten yet blindingly bright . Spring is sainted with the waking up of the illustrious Cherry Blossoms . summertime is gloriously lush , yet agonizingly humid . And Fall ? Well , they do n’t call it ‘ Korea on Fire ’ for nothing . I moved to Korea to process for a year and my colleagues call for me along for a hiking go of Jecheon , the town I was live in , so naturally , I jump at the occasion to search and learn more about the cultivation .
During the hike we were all so caught up in admiring the stunning fall foliage that some of us separated . It was then , as I was wandering around , that I blob some funny creatures nuzzle amongst a folio on a tree . Contrasting against the gross colors , they were strike and unmissable . My colleagues had no clue as to what they were when I show them my pic and It was n’t until later that I found out they were Rainbow Beetles .
I ’m an amateur photographer , at best , albeit a passionate one ! So I only had with me my compact photographic camera , a Panasonic Lumix . I did my proficient to enamor the vibrancy of the Rainbow Beetles against the magical fall colours .
It was n’t until later , when an American champion stumbled across my exposure , that they suggested I enter in for the Gizmodo Shooting Challenge . Whilst I do n’t own a DSLR , I enjoy taking pic in the moment as I love to capture and preserve thing in a natural mode .
-Angela Hwang
I was with a brace of my sidekick on a trip with my stria for a music lance South Lake Tahoe on the California side . We had some innocent time and halt by to see the lake since one of the guys had never see it “ in real life ” . I had my iPhone 5 for all of a week or so , and settle to take some quick film … I could n’t trust the quality that come from the phone … Well I was impressed … The very next Clarence Day Lake Tahoe had a pretty big storm come in and spread over everything with nose candy … This is probably the last day these tree depend this way …
-Anthony Lee
“ Nikon D5100 with Sigma 10 - 20 mm , F/10 , 1/6 sec , ISO 500
-Brenda Mugleston
Canon T2I , 55 mm lense , just starting in photography so I ’m not exactly sure what options I was using .
I took this photo while with my grandma in Pierce , Nebraska . We noticed the trees were turning around the area so we make up one’s mind to find the most unique trees . This one just happened to be in the park just as the Dominicus was setting .
-Brice Stubben
I push by this route almost on a day-to-day fundament and always wondered what I would look like in the fall and so I waited until a couple of weeks ago until the trees were at their fullest and the result is very satifying ..
tv camera : Nikon D5000
Lens : Sigma 18 - 200
Aperture 11.0
Focal Lenght 18 millimeter
ISO 100
HDR post processing
Number of shots : 3 ( -2 , 0 , +3 )
-Bryan Hernandez
Believe it or not this photograph was captured with my iPhone 4s . I ’m a pretty ripe Photoshopper so I just bring the picture in there , made a few edits and genus Viola . The tree diagram were just so dead orange and beautiful this solar day so I made everything but the tree diagram black and white so they would stand out even more . I ca n’t retrieve the precise name of where we were but I call back it was in the Bear Creek area of Colorado .
The narration : I recently move from Cleveland to Denver and my friends ( from college in Cleveland ) amount to visit for the weekend . I had never been to a mickle before so when they came we made it a point to do some hiking , that ’s them in the left field of the word picture . It was an incredibly beautiful day , literally the perfect Fall day . As we were coming back from our rise I remark the sun hitting this patch of tree diagram at the double-dyed slant . I could not stop taking film . I have like 10 more depiction I wanted to take to this competition . This sounds cockeyed , I bed , but it was in reality reasonably witching . There were dog playacting , photographers everywhere , people playing frisbee , just about everything you would expect to see in a flick on a staring Fall day . It was a great way of life to start my newfangled life in Colorado .
-Bryan Patton
Was leaving a friends Greenhouse , during the Storm and the ground was litter with about a trillion brilliantly colorise leaves …
So … click … get across … Clickety Click … pull off a hundred or more shots , with my Sony RX100 …
Of all the guesswork … for no definable cause … I like this one the best . The options were …
f:3.2 – 1/100 sec . – ISO 125 – Focal length 10 millimeter . – Zeiss 1:8 lens of the eye … the RX100 is a mirrorless 20.1Mp camera with a 1 inch sensor and about the size of it of a deck of cards . This shot , is pretty much flat out of the camera … Post , was minor Brightness & Contrast allowance .
-Charlie Carroll
I shot this with Hipstamatic for my iPhone , which agree to the EXIF data shoot at f2.4 for 1/2000 of a 2nd ( ish ) .
There ’s not much of a story here except to say that iPhone picture taking has really rekindled my love of picture taking , especially during autumn when there are so many transient moments that you simply ca n’t consider going back after with your camera . So it was a really fun calendar month , being able to stop and capture passing moments of light and color like this .
-Chris Blakeley
Apple Orchard near Sterling , MA
Date captured : October 17 , 2012
tv camera : Canon S100 on a tripod with a Nodal Ninja Mark III bird’s-eye tripod head ( ISO 100 , Aperture f8 )
Technique : HDR Panorama ( 9 shot ; 3 views blanket x 3 exposures per panorama ( -2 ev , 0 ev , +2 ev ) )
software package :
HDR / Tonemapping : Photomatix Pro 4.1.2
Panoramic Stitching : PTGui 9.1.2
Cropping / Sweetening : Photoshop CS5
Backstory :
Recently , I rediscovered the landscape piece of work of Maxfield Parrish , one of the most democratic painter / illustrators of the 20th century . I was a vast lover of Parrish when I was in college and now recognize the tremendous influence of his workplace on my own . In an attempt to honour that influence , I ship on a week - long pic sashay to his darling New England during the annual dip foliage spectacle . This collection map my best efforts at capturing the magical landscape painting moments that inspired Parrish and which continue to thrill “ foliage peepers ” from around the world .
-Dan Ambrosi
television camera Used Samsung S III Smartphone
ISO – 80
I was remote cleaning up the leave before the Charles Percy Snow tally and say “ Hey I should take a picture and sent it into Gizmodo ” . I usually see everyone with Nikon D serial or Canon gear wheel I think it would be interesting to air a new coevals smartphone shot .
-Dan Gallegos
In the valley where we live , the trees had no glimmering that fall was approaching . My wife and I headed out to the mountain of Snow Basin stamping ground in Utah to see how the trees there were progress . They were in full splendor providing unlimited possibilities for the embarrassment of photographer that were stud the landscape . The sun was low in the belated afternoon provide the foliage in sundry fantasm . It was the quintessential essence of Fall . If only we could have spent more time there .
Nikon D40 , AF - S DX VR Zoom - Nikkor 55 - 200 mm f/4 - 5.6 G IF - ED at 82 mm , f/5.6 , 1/125 , ISO-200
-Darren Worley
Shot with Nikon D600 and Nikkor 28 - 200 mm 3.5 - 5.6 lens , with electron lens at 28 mm .
ISO 100 , Aperture f7.1 , Shutter Speed 1/200 .
My married woman and I just buzz off back from a short vacation on November 6 , and I waken up on the 7th to see this shooting challenge . What a coincidence I think to myself ! We had been at Yosemite National Park , and couldn’tbelieve all the beautiful declination colors . I always savor looking at the shooting challenge , but this is the first time I have bow .
This shot was take midday in the Yosemite Valley level , in the apparition of El Capitan .
-Darren Spothelfer
Nikon D90
Nikkor 15 mm 1:3.5 Lens
f/3.5 w/ ISO200 @640ish ( i imagine )
DO THIS : If you go outside right now , pose under one of your beautiful Autum tree and close your eyes almost all the way and just permit them lose focus as you lay there … this might be what you see . It ’s fucking magical .
So , I live in San Antonio , TX where “ Fall ” is n’t really seen in the tree until late October or so … so does that indispose me from enter a photo ? Most of last year there were either dead leafage or NO leaf at all on our Tree all yr due to the drought . This year , although still raging as clod , we ’ve had enough rain to make thing green and keep them that style . So , I take this photograph outside of my office , and freely admit that in the spirit of the season , I changed the snowy equalizer to make it face like “ Fall ” even though the leaves are really beautifully , richly dark and vivacious green . Again should this disqualify me ? This is Fall in San Antonio man , what are ya gon na do ? With that out of the way , the thing here is the Bokeh . I ’ve been shooting with this 15 mm lense for about 9 months now , and it almost never leaves me camera .
-Dave Terry
charge during a prospicient walk through the woods in Sharon , MA on 2025-05-16 ; a beautiful fall twenty-four hour period . I used a Nikon D7000 with a Tokina 11 - 16 soar . My goal was to pullulate at the wide-eyed ( 11 mm ) conclusion that day to see if I could capture some interesting perspective . Towards the conclusion of the walk I notice this lone small tree with a few stay folio surrounded by some gravid Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . I got down on the ground as scummy as possible and inject up through the small Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .
ISO 200 , f/4 , 1/200
-David Barron
I shoot this while on a weekend pickup in Saugatuck Michigan in October . I experience in Chicago so getting out into the wilderness in the mettle of Autumn is a welcome treat every year . I was walking the weenie and this injection climb up out at me . It was shot using a Nikon D7000 , Nikkor 18 - 200 lens @ 20 mm . It was mail processed in Photomatix Pro for HDR effect .
-David Guyon
I ’ve get these photos yesterday . I take the photo with my Nikon D7000 with a 18 - 105 mm lens .
I was taking moving-picture show of some friends and while I was wait I noticed 2 squirrels popping up all around me , but I did n’t have fourth dimension to take a dig .
A few moment later I heard some sound and I noticed a squirrel eating on a mellow branch . I walked around spot and direct a few picture . This one is the good of the bunch .
-David Frenkel
I was a holidaymaker in my own town Sunday , taking pictures from the Space Needle . It was n’t until I came home and looked at the jibe that I realized how many trees are originate amidst the pavement , and how they ’re all turning . I graze and made a few edits in Lightroom . Sony RX100 . f/5.6 , 1/100 sec , ISO 125 .
-David Lee
Story : This picture was taken while driving through the forest area of Kettle morraine state forest near Milwaukee , WI with my Friend Manas . twilight band in WI very early on in October and I found that the Yellowish - Orange leaves would be a skilful submission . The bender in the Road contribute a continous feeling to the watcher .
Nikon D7000
Aperture precedency
f/8
18 - 135 mm electron lens
24 millimeter
ISO – 100
1/20 sec
hand held
-Deepak Sundar
Canon T2i , 100 mm , f/5 , ISO 100
Now that I ’ve moved to California , it was quite challenging to find ANY signs of fall around ( except for many brown tree ) . This is the closemouthed I got .
-Diego Jimenez
This was shot at Valley Forge National Park today ( Veteran ’s Day ) using :
canyon EOS Rebel T31
Sigma 28 - 200 Lense
ISO 100 , f/3.5 , Focal length 28 mm , no flash
I took this near the National Memorial Arch in Valley Forge park ( http://www.nps.gov/vafo/historyculture/arch.htm ) . Fall leaves give me a pensive sense of the passing of summer . juxtapose this with the iris on Veteran ’s Day helps me to express my rich sorrow and thankfulness for the sacrifices of all of those who have defend our freedom .
-Don Fisher
Metadata : Canon EOS 550D , Lens EF - S18 - 135,1/640sec , f/18 , ISO 800
Story : Walking down this beautiful street in Chicago , I remark the innovation of the fence and the shadow that was regurgitate by the Sunday angle at the time . It inspired me to take a shot of this fence with its trace including a stunning backdrop of the jaundiced leaves of Fall on the tree and the empty walkway .
-Donovan Koh
This shot was taken aright outside Cooper Hospital in Camden , New Jersey . My blood brother had to go there for a routine check up , and as we were pulling into the parking service department I spy this tree diagram at the edge of the private road . It was the best color I had seen on a tree all time of year . I took this shot with a Canon T2i with a Asahi Pentax SMC Takumar 50 millimetre f/1.4 manual focus lens system , shot at f/1/4 . The air current was blowing and the leaves refuse to stay still , but I was able-bodied to fuel off a few shots and this one was the secure .
-Donovan Myers
photographic camera : Canon G11
Do nt have intercourse ISO and such . Did nt really take the characterization believe the ISO .
“ While doing our Geography Lab , thought of taking a few picture . Really i was trying to enchant this guy on his Run . But .. well , this came out . stopping point : the lab was alright . determine distance bearings is not as fun as you think ”
-Fahim Khan
This was my good slam conduct on October at a botanical garden during a warm fall good afternoon .
I love how the shadow of the trees makes the fit so cinematic , dramatic or taken from a theatre .
The main leafage is passably well manual concentrate too with onetime but very sharp glass . I ’m really amazed with the ( untouched ) color captured !
Canon 550D
Yashica ML 50 millimetre f/2 manual focal point lense
f/4 , 1/125 sec .
ISO-250
-Filipe Soares
Camera : Apple iPhone 5
Focal Length : 33 mm ( 35 mm equivalent )
ISO : 50
Exposure : f/2.4 1/401 sec .
On a beautiful fall sunrise , I was walk some property in battle of Chattanooga , TN to evaluate its potential recreational use . Around the heart of the parcel I came across this striking tree - it appear to be an oak tree - which had no scummy branches . The direct contrast of the yellowing leaves against the deep blue sky and the sunup Lord’s Day illuminating the barque , making it almost white in appearance , captured my attention . I was able to immortalise the site on my iPhone , the only camera I had with me .
-Geff Adams
accrue in Saxony
Fall was in full jive and the wind was humming low through the tree . At last , nature was starting to show her true colouring . The mental image was captured on a beautiful hiking trail in Saxony , Germany , at around 12 postmortem in mid - October . I was favourable , as this was one of the first picture that I shoot that sidereal day , before the rainwater come and the sun disappear behind the cloud .
entrance with a D800 using a 16 - 35 F4 crystalline lens , at 16 mm , 1/100 , ISO 400 and f8 , on October 10
-Daniel Ghetu
At just the right second I was lucky enough to appropriate an almost perfect mavin from the rays through this Maple tree diagram . The foliage were already changing color , providing some layers of the colors of drop
Canon 7D , ISO 100 , f/25 , 1/200sec
-Graham Kingma
Welcome to the “ Grand Canyon of the East ” , the “ Glen Iris ” or more commonly known as Letchworth State Park in Upstate New York . This is the horizon from inspiration breaker point of the Higher Falls and a raspberry . A Bird !
As for the picture and cogwheel this was taken with a Nikon D5100 and the outfit genus Lens . Slight Level and Color Adjustments in PS as I more reacted to the scene ( with a Bird ! ) than planned for .
-Harvey Taylor
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