Barefoot in the leaves

My brilliant daughter who is getting straight A's right now, decides she does not need shoes for our photo shoot. As she is tip toeing through the leaves and such, I caught this picture ... notice her foot is popping up? Yeah, there was something prickly under her foot. Maybe next time she will think twice before going out of the house without shoes. ;-) I was using my 50mm lens for this shot f/5.6. It makes her feet and leaves in focus, but her skirt out of focus a little. I wanted the focus to go straight to her little piggies.

Posing in the leaves

So our neighbor hasn't been raking his leaves on the side of his house. As I was driving home I noticed it would make a great photo opportunity, so I took advantage of it. With Cassie I had to fight the sun making shadows on her face, so I made sure to use a flash and compose my picture so that there were not shadows. With Brianna it was later in the afternoon, so I had to make sure I did use a flash to help fill in the shadows from the sun being in back of her. I tried doing the same shots with both girls, but like any photo shoot, they all turned out different. Here are two of my favorites with the leaves:

Another Example of how texture and color can change the look of your images.
My name is Heather, and I'm a texture addict :-)

I just love the Depth of Field of this shot- f/2.8. And the blue sky is such a compliment to the orange and yellow hues.
I added a colorful texture for a water color effect on the 2nd image.

New Theme

With November almost upon us, I thought I would throw out our next theme. It is similar to "fall", but more specific. For this month, I want you to concentrate on "leaves". Interpret it any way you like, but I want to see a picture that has to do with "leaves or lack there of". Can't wait to see what you come up with! :D

This caught my eye ... I was looking for something to fit the theme Heather gave us ... fall. I thought this captured what fall is. The weather is changing and not supportive of flowers, so the flowers start dying. But, some just hang on and won't give up. In the midst of dry, crumbled life, there is always life.

Feeling Fall

While walking around, I found this pomegranate tree. I loved the colors and while there are traditional colors of fall, you don't see pomegranates very often. I loved how the sun faded the seeds in the top picture. Again, I had to use a little fill flash, boosted the colors and cropped in close. I also used f/5.6 to make the background blurry. I wanted the focus on the fruit.