Thursday, October 17, 2013

Autumn Foliage in Macro

The leaves are changing color in my neighborhood here in Pleasanton, CA. I saw this macro shot another photographer took of a leaf on my Google+ feed and I decided I have to try out some myself! During my walk the other day, I picked off 5 leaves that I liked from trees in the Pleasanton Tennis & Community Park. I only ended up using 2 of them though. Here are the shots I took. I have the regular process photos, black and white processes, and also a few abstract type processes to show you. These photos were all taken on my Canon EOS 5D Mark III with my Kenko Extension Tubes and Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens.

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Macro shots of leaves are very cool. The details on the leaf looks like a completely different world. 

A black and white process of the photo above. 

I shot these photos by back lighting the leaves with my Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT and a softbox

A black and white process of the photo above. 


A macro shot of a red leaf I picked up.

I decided to process the same photo in a more abstract manner. I over-saturated the shot and it gave this "volcano look" that you see in some cartoons. 

I also processed the photo in black and white. 


Same leaf, a slightly different section on it. 

Abstract process of the photo. 

Black and white process of the photo. 


The red leaf wasn't so flat, so I switched back to the yellow leaf I was shooting with earlier. Here is a shot of  the leaf in vertical layout. 

A black and white process of the photo above. 

I thought the symmetry looks nice. 

The leaf in a horizontal position. 


Another shot of the leaf in a horizontal position after fixing it to be parallel to the camera. 

A black and white process of the above photo. 

Another section on the same leaf. 

Black and white process of the above photo. 


Another shot of the leaf. I took many repeats varying the power on my flash. They all turned out very nice. :)

Another horizontal shot on the leaf. 

Black and white process of the above photo. 

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