{"id":1409,"date":"2018-11-23T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2020-03-23T12:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:05:56","slug":"landscape-photography-fall-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/landscape-photography-fall-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape Photography: Fall Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn is my favourite season. I just love the colours. \u00a0Unfortunately, the fall foliage is now gone and the trees are bare. We will have to wait a few months for \u00a0colourful natural landscapes again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1410\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1410\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-01.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-01-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-01-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-01-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I like the challenge of finding interesting compositions (i.e arrangement of trees). It is harder than it looks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1411\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-02.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-02.jpg 960w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-02-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-02-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-02-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting closer can make it easier .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1412\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1412\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-03.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-03.jpg 960w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-03-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-03-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-03-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I shot several versions of this photo. I also used multiple exposures in camera and panning after taking this shot (coming in a forthcoming blog post).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1413\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1413\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-04.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-04.jpg 960w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-04-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-04-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-04-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another pleasing arrangement of trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1414\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1414\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-05.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-05.jpg 960w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-05-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-05-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-05-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I wasn&#8217;t sure about the branch on the left hand side of the frame in the previous picture, so I moved to the right and tried this composition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1415\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1415\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-06.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-06.jpg 960w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-06-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-06-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-06-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I really enjoying observing how the colours evolve from day to day. A few days later, you may not have been able to take that photo as a lot of the leaves would have fallen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1416\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1416\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-07.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-07.jpg 960w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-07-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-07-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-07-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Somewhat unconventional framing, breaking the rule of thirds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1417\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1417\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-08.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-08.jpg 960w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-08-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-08-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-08-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another experiment. Moving close to the foliage to use it as the foreground with the forest as background. Wish I had tried a longer focal length, but on this day, I travelled light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I really like the forest in Blackford Hill, Edinburgh. And every year is different. \u00a0I know I could spend a lot more time photographing there than I do now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1418\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1418\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-09.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"638\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-09.jpg 638w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-09-532x800.jpg 532w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-09-624x939.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vertical composition of an earlier photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1419\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1419\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-10.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"638\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-10.jpg 638w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-10-532x800.jpg 532w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-10-624x939.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I was attracted to the beautiful yellow leaves. That was rather early in the fall season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1420\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1420\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-11.jpg\" alt=\"Fall forest, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"638\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-11.jpg 638w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-11-532x800.jpg 532w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-11-624x939.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another &#8220;early&#8221; pic. Just loved the few orange\/red branches to contrast with the remaining green leaves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn is my favourite season. I just love the colours. \u00a0Unfortunately, the fall foliage is now gone and the trees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,59,12,43],"tags":[154,136,298,188,153,130,7],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edinburgh","category-landscape","category-personal-work","category-photography-2","tag-autumn","tag-blackford-hill","tag-colours","tag-edinburgh","tag-fall","tag-forest","tag-photography","has-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-01.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Fall-Forest-Philippe-Monthoux-01.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"PhilsBlog","author_link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/author\/philsblog\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}