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Autumn Trees at Anderwood, New Forest

These 3 images of autumn trees were taken at Anderwood, New Forest last autumn, and with the first 2 attempted a different metering technique to achieve a back lit photo.

A back lit photo is where the sun is in front of the camera instead of typically being behind or to the side of you and the camera. When taking this image you will need to take into account the possibility of lens flare and the effect on the camera’s exposure reading.

A way to avoid lens flare is to hide the sun behind part of the scene you are shooting, and for the 2 back lit images here I took a meter reading from the tree trunk.

These two images hopefully show the difference achieved with the position of the sun in the scene.

Back lit tree in Autumn
Back lit tree in Autumn
Olympus 35-80mm F2.8 lens at F8, with Cokin warm up filter on Velvia 50 slide film.

Back lit tree in Autumn no.2
Back lit tree in Autumn no.2
Olympus 35-80mm F2.8 lens at F8, with Cokin warm up filter on Velvia 50 slide film.

For the last picture I wanted to emphasize the height of the tree by using a wide angle lens.

Autumn trees
Autumn trees
Olympus 24mm F2 lens at F8, with Cokin warm up filter on Velvia 50 slide film.

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Pete

I have been shooting nature with Olympus digital & Olympus OM camera gear on film since 2004

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