Falling leaf

[David Morison]

Here's a challenge for you! In an attempt at honing my in-flight bird shots I practiced trying to photograph falling leaves. The trick in any in-flight shots is to first get get the bird(s) in the viewfinder! Practicing with a falling leaf will I hope sharpen my reflexes. So late afternoon found me down the lane, assuring passers by that there was a rare bird in a Poplar tree but firing away at an apparently blank sky. Anyhow after about 50 shots I could only come up with one keeper, heavily cropped:



So come on, there must be better leaf shots out there so lets see them. Better hurry though - they'll all be gone soon!

Canon 7D plus 400mm f5.6L

David

[John Perriment]

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Not easy! I sometimes think I need to practice BIF shots to hone my skills for falling leaves!

[Barr1e]

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Great tip David, thanks. Out in the garden tomorrow.

Regards. Barr1e

[Pops]

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I have tried and tried but all to no avail

[Pol]

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Here's one I took a while ago. I was testing a fast lens one time and I got got lucky. The leaf was hanging onto tiny fragment of a broken web and it fell almost simultaneously as I pressed the shutter.

I was very close to the branch at the time - which made it even more lucky! I'd been aiming for a shot of Autumn leaves on an Acer branch with natural colours of the sky and other vegetation in the background.





Pol

[David M]

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The leaves have been off the trees for weeks in this part of Ontario. We got up to snow three mornings last week.

[Graham_of_Rainham]

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Ever considered using some "Magic"

http://www.emagictricks.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=4318

ok so it's not so skilled in terms of photographic technique, but by starting with the end in mind and a small pinch of lateral thought...

[Jane Doe]

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I wish I had my camera on while I was driving on Friday... I would have got the "shot of a lifetime" not just one leaf falling gently from a tree, but a whole branch almost as big as the car came down in front of me! (literally ABS engaged and I still hit it) My daughter did try to take a photo of the lorry that was that overloaded it pulled the branch down, but as it was dark we had no luck!

[Ian]

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I wish I had my camera on while I was driving on Friday... I would have got the "shot of a lifetime" not just one leaf falling gently from a tree, but a whole branch almost as big as the car came down in front of me! (literally ABS engaged and I still hit it) My daughter did try to take a photo of the lorry that was that overloaded it pulled the branch down, but as it was dark we had no luck!

Wow - scary indeed! Often seen the afrermath of such incidents, especially after the hurricane in 1987, but I have never witnessed such a thing happening!

Ian

[Ian]

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David - I will have to leaf through my shots to meet your challenge

Ian

[iainmacd]

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Here's one I took a while ago. I was testing a fast lens one time and I got got lucky. The leaf was hanging onto tiny fragment of a broken web and it fell almost simultaneously as I pressed the shutter.

I was very close to the branch at the time - which made it even more lucky! I'd been aiming for a shot of Autumn leaves on an Acer branch with natural colours of the sky and other vegetation in the background.





Pol

That is a cracking capture Pol

[Pol]

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That is a cracking capture Pol

Thank you. I can confidently say I'll never get another one like it because it really was a chance in a million shot.

I must admit I was disappointed with the print. The colours and quality of the print are excellent (a commercial print) but the very shallow dof means it's rather 2 dimensional.

Pol