{"id":596,"date":"2015-01-28T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2020-03-19T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:25:00","slug":"impressionist-photography-fall-forest-pans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/impressionist-photography-fall-forest-pans\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressionist Photography: Fall Forest Pans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is my favourite season for taking pictures in the forest. I love the feeling you get walking around. But with the amount of detail modern cameras are able to reproduce, it is sometimes difficult to convey that feeling in pictures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-597\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-597\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Panning picture of fall forest scene in Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, early fall\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-1-624x414.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was rather early in the fall, and thus there were only hints of the autumn foliage colours. This is one of my favourite panning shots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Panning the camera during a long exposure is a very effective way of getting rid of the fine details and leaving the viewer with just an impression of the scene the photographer is looking at.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-598\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-598\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-2-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Panning picture of fall forest scene in Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, late fall\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-2-624x414.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few weeks later after the first photograph was taken, the fall colours were in full force.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And from day to day and week to week, the colours of the forest change and one gets different pictures every time one goes out, even if choosing the exact same vantage point. Especially since it is rather difficult to replicate the camera movements from one time to the next.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-599\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-599\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-3-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Panning picture of a few trees with fall colours on Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-3-624x414.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is an area I had walked by and not paid attention to in the spring and summer. But the wonderful fall colours grabbed by attention and I worked this location for a while, getting a few pictures I like very much.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of the pictures in this post were taken on Blackford Hill, in Edinburgh. I wanted to get pictures from that same location for different seasons. I think for 2015\/16, I\u2019ll be looking at other wooded areas for my personal forest impressionist photography projects.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-600\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-600\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-4-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Panning photograph of three trees with fall colours, taken on Blackford Hill, Edinburgh\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Impressionist-Photography-Fall-Forest-Pan-4-624x414.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is another photograph from the same location as above. From a different point of view. And the light did change from one shot to the next, as this picture has slightly waker tones than the previous one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is my favourite season for taking pictures in the forest. I love the feeling you get walking around. 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