Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
In this video I'm gonna show you some photos and video
from an outing to one of my local parks in autumn. This was the last one that I
managed. This one.. very calm beautiful day. Great time to take photos of course with
all the colors. I was using a very simple setup. The M100 plus the 22mm f/2 lens.
Very compact, very easy to use. I actually wish I had a telephoto lens that day.
Which we'll get to why later in the video, but the nice thing about this park
is it has definitely a lot of terrain differences. Really interesting areas.
Especially this time of year you can get into some areas that are harder to get
to in the summer. In the park there is a baseball diamond, and had recently rained.
A good spot for taking photos with reflections. There's also a tennis court,
and the great thing about tennis courts is they have that color to them usually.
And also a nice texture. Getting some leading lines in your photos. Get down
low with that court and I think it looks pretty interesting. A very simple and
easy way to take some photos in autumn, because of the nice colors... Is just to
shoot straight on with the trees. Nice flat photo, but it is very interesting.
This tree had beautiful leaves on it. Nice rich yellow color to them. Great one
for taking a simple photo just of that tree. Nice light coming in down towards
the middle. So there was some variation with the light as well, which helps make
the photo really pop. In this photo there's a mixture of color kind of a
black and white almost, but in color. You've got the nice rich yellow plus the
Greens of that tree that still had not changed colors.
There's a stream that runs through this park, but in the winter time
some of it is empty. There's no water in it. Good place to take photos. Get some
really interesting subjects. All the rocks. All the unusual look to that area
that's normally covered with water. This tree and some of the other ones in the
park had a fantastic pale color to them. Almost white... There was a little bit of
yellow in some of them, but you got the white in the stark contrast of the red
dots on there. Nice speckles of color. And then you also add the red berries. It's a
really beautiful plant in this time of year. Of course, it's probably just a simple
green plant in the summer time. But once it turns color, really beautiful...
This park has a large terrain difference from one area to another.
You have that stream running through, but then you have a large wall of limestone or
some other type of rock. When that one area is not full of water, you can actually
use that to get to some of those limestone walls with a nice moss on them.
So you get really close to it in this situation.
Another benefit of erosion with rocks and things.
Different types of material... Not really sure, but gives a nice
interesting texture. One of my favorite natural compositions with a simple tree.
Has a nice canopy to it. And then you have a stark contrast of the leaves on the ground.
It's almost a duality with that photo split in half. But still very contrast-y
with the different colors. I had actually taken a photo similar to that in this
park that's really one of my favorites... As I've said in some of my previous
videos, getting closer to the ground is a great angle. Especially for these nature
photos that are simple compositions potentially. Trying to get down lower.
Utilize the ground. Use that to your advantage. This park has a nice little
gazebo up in this hilly area. I was pretty far from that. So I was able to
use that as a subject. With the trees basically framing that gazebo. And as I
got closer I could get a larger view of that structure. But I really do like the
one when it's far away. Photos like that I think they would really work out in a
print format. More so than digital. Because you'll be able to see and look
closer very easily on a print. One fun technique specific to the M100 is that
if you use the camera upside down, and you flip the screen towards you while
holding it up. You'll be able to see the screen while getting those higher angles.
It is kind of a quirk of this camera with how the screen is set up, but it
does work pretty well. You just have to rotate the photo at the end. The last
photos were pretty interesting. I really wish I had a telephoto lens in this
situation. Because there was a fox in the field sunning itself. That would have
been a great photo with a telephoto lens. I just had the 22 though. Did take a few
photos. Overall a beautiful day to take photos. Pretty happy with the results.
Some interesting ones came out of that little photowalk. The goal with these videos
is to get out there. Take photos, show you by example of
what I do in those situations. I know they're very simple. The subjects are
very simple. And anyone can go out there and keep these type of photos. You don't
need anything special with your subjects. Which are just simple nature situations,
and with your equipment. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did enjoy
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