My most important ingredient to compose a woodland image.

Finally, I've managed to get out into the woodland again, and just in time for the transformation from summer green to the warm Autumn colours too. Still not Autumn yet, but the transformation can be seen from day to day. The days have become considerable shorter too, and the hour with light after work have been shrinking and suddenly seems to have gone up in smoke. 400 ISO have now become a necessity if I want to freeze the leaves, so I'll have to rely on the weekends to get enough light in the forest and the woodland from here on.

The weather has changed too, more wind, and it’s colder in the morning. Hopefully this gives me some opportunities to make some morning mist images, I’ve got a few ideas, but need the conditions to get them working. Would love some images with the mist drifting over the water and the trees in the background just exploding with warm Autumn colours. As long as I get the mist, I’ve got the trees lined up. But until that happen, I’m stuck with my woodland and forest scenes.

I can live with that as long as the wind stays away, sadly at this time of year the wind almost never goes away so. But a few good things follow this time of year though, the sun rise later in the morning and goes down earlier, so it's possible to get a bit more sleep. As I've got a full-time job, sunrises are only reachable in the weekends, and as usual so far, the weather conditions haven't been on my side. Too many clouds both in the morning and in the evening.

Still, getting up in the morning to check to conditions have become a daily rutine, just a bit irritating when the conditions are looking good, and I’ve got to leave for work.

My inspiration has been a bit up and down the last couple of months, so sharing new images haven't been as easy as before. Hopefully I'm on a rising tide now, so I'll hope to share images a little bit more regularly through upcoming months. I'm very happy to be back again out with my camera. This is an image I made a week back. It's a sunrise image, the warmer tone in the ambient light is just the reflection from the sky just before the sun climb the mountains. I simply love this kind of light; it emphasizes the depth and make the scene a bit more alive. At least through my eyes. I've used that foreground tree as an anker point for my composition, and then used the path to invite the viewer into the image.

It’s a focus-stack of two images. I wanted the tree in the foreground and those two in the back to be sharp, the background I kept a bit blurry to keep the feeling of depth. I made sure I didn’t clip the highlight, and the rest is just some dodging and burning to make the trees more alive.

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