OVERCAST SKIES

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Overcast days are wonderful for Fall foliage, but the addition of that dull gray blob of a sky can seriously detract from your great image. Why not just crop out the sky? If the sky is not an integral part of your composition, or the desire of your art director, just get rid of it (or leave a small slice like the sample photo). Give it a try! Your photo will be much better for it.

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TEXTURE PHOTOS

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Most of the photographs that people take have a subject and a background. Even if there are multiple subjects in the image, there will usually be a separation between the subjects and the (preferably) subservient background.

Texture-style photos are different however. They have no subject nor a background . . . the only defining element to these images are color variations, and a multitude of small and uniform objects. In the case of this foliage photo that I took last week, the small and uniform objects are the individual leaves.

The key to getting good texture shots is to back up, and allow a lot of the scenery into the camera lens. The individual objects (leaves) should be small enough so that they lose their identity amongst their neighbors. The result is a painterly image, often inducing calm and tranquility in the viewer.

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