- [Adrian] So, now over the last 50 years,
150 species of deciduous trees
have grown over 125 hectares of land.
And there are now over 22,000 types
of trees here to photograph.
I'm creating called "Changing Seasons".
And in this series, I'm gonna talk you through
how the seasons affect the Australian woodlands, forests
So let's come further down the trail.
I'm just walking through these narrow leafed ashes
and I'm just trying to find
where I think the colors will change
up against some evergreen.
Now ideally, I want to give the impression
that yes, these trees are here occurring naturally,
but I also want to have a look
and see if I can get, in the background,
yes, you can probably see in the background here,
these are actually pine trees, mind you.
Certainly not native to Australia
but I want to be able to find a location where I have
the fall or autumn colors in the foreground,
quite lit, whether it's side-light or back-lit.
And in the background that I have,
an Australian gum-tree or eucalyptus
or something that's native to Australia.
So you pause to think
"where's that photograph taken?".
(birds chirping)
But, I guess the birds are out, and it's beautiful.
So, one of the great things about this part of the forest
that I discovered here in these Ash trees
is the Australian Eucalyptus has regrown.
And recently we've got some lovely little saplings
coming amongst the ashes.
So it's creating really different types of colors
and contrast and textures
in the different types of leaves
and obviously the bracken as well.
So, still need to work this in a little bit harder
but hopefully we can come away
with something that I can come back when
the colors are a little bit more vibrant, but for today
I think we probably might get an image.
So just rendered my first composition.
And I really like this narrow leaf ash,
how it's vibrant, bright green.
Hopefully it's gonna be yellow in a few weeks time
when I come back leading us through to that evergreen.
Admittedly we do have...
I'm pretty confident that there
are ashes behind as well so I'll need to check that.
But even just for now,
I really like these shots.
So one of the challenges I am having,
we have to move around a little bit
'cause I've got this dead bracken here.
Which does add a bit of contrast,
but given the rest of the image is quite green
and orange, that brown part there,
I need to move the tripod a little bit around.
So, I do like the textures and colors.
So, this could be, if nothing else,
a good image for today.
(soothing music)
(undergrowth crackling)
(birds chirping)
So as you can see here, I'm just trying work
with these silver birches
and the leaves have started changing,
not completely, but we're probably a couple of weeks away
but you can see a bit of yellow.
So I'm trying to get a sprinkling
of yellow in the forest canopy,
and try to make it look as natural as possible.
'Cause these are kind of planted
nearly perfectly in rows
which I don't really want.
So trying to bring out again, textures in the colors
proving more difficult at this point in time.
But one thing I have learned I thought worth sharing
with you is really,
you gotta learn to look around
and you know, if you really focus on what's ahead of you.
You actually miss what's behind.
And I've just walked along this trail here.
And I've looked back and I've seen some really
interesting trees, these silver birches,
and different shapes.
And so I'm gonna go back and work that scene over there.
I think there's something there.
So I've been working this little scene here
and the tree I was talking
about before is just off screen behind the camera.
The tree that's sort of shaping around,
and really, it doesn't work.
And I've gotta remember that
I'm actually gonna come back here in
about four to six weeks time
when the color does change.
And we've got a sprinkling of, sort of, the yellow
on the silver Birch coming through.
So, I think this scene that I've set up here now,
this composition, potentially will work
a lot better when those colors change.
So what I've done here is I've separated,
as best as I can, the trunks.
and then I've looked across the top
to see if I've got a nice canopy.
You sort of got a natural leading
into the scene as well.
(soothing music)
Well, I really hope you've enjoyed today's video.
And without me having to get
on a plane to enjoy these different types of mini-forests
just here in Australia.
If you've enjoyed today's video,
appreciate you hitting the "like" button.
Thanks so much.
Now, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna continue looking
through the silver birches here
before we try and look at some maples.
There, definitely not, colors haven't changed yet
but I wanna frame up some images,
oh, sorry, some compositions and some locations,
so I come back and check them out in a few weeks time.
So, let's crack on.
So I'm pretty excited
with what this image could potentially be.
Now at the moment,
nearly nine o'clock in the morning,
the sun has risen,
but it actually rises
through that eucalyptus forest over there as well.
So we do get some back-light under those right conditions
but even now a soft-diffused light
across the canopy of the trees,
with four silver birches lined up,
all sort of going in the same direction
across the scene.
With a little bit of sprinkling of yellow
on those leaves, leading us through,
it's not really a trail, but sort of implies
there's a trail there,
through to those ashes
that I took before.
We'll take that shot now.
(soothing music)
Actually, I was just about to pack up,
and the sun's broken through the clouds,
we're actually getting some side-light across the scene.
So we'll take another shot
while the trees are lighting up.
So you can see the Ash in the background.
They've got a glow on them.
Well, talk about being
in the right place at the the right time.
I think with photography. I think we all know that sometimes
the light just happens. Spectacular!
So I wasn't expecting that this morning,
'cause it was supposed to be overcast
and diffused light all day.
But, just little back-lit glow
to these beautiful golden, and greens.
Really exciting photographs!
(soothing music)
So just,
oh, black cockatoo, so I've just framed up this
image here with these canoe birches which
(birds chirping)
which are from North America.
And what I like here is I actually like the contrast
between the canoe birch
and the green lush tree ferns
of the Australian Bush.
So, bit of a interesting take here.
So I don't know whether these leaves
are deciduous, I'm sure they are,
but I guess we'll find out when I get home.
But I do like this little composition here
with the silver, sorry, canoe birch,
obviously the white contrasting with the lush greens,
and the shapes. So I'm just really working really hard
to separate the tree branches and the trunks.
But what I am so challenged by,
is in the foreground which I can't really move,
is I've got the birch sort of sweeping through
the front of the scene here.
So, I actually am focus-stacking the image,
just in case, that I make sure it's all sharp.
So, I definitely need that leaves in the foreground
in sharp focus and then flowing through into scene.
It sort of leads down into the background
where there's some subtle light
where those tree ferns are hitting at the back there.
So yeah, if it's any good,
pop it up now!
(soothing music)
This is the last location I wanna check out
which, when I came,
it was probably two or three years ago.
I know these leaves turn
into vibrant red colors and oranges.
So I think it's a maple, but I don't really know.
So I'm just gonna try and find a composition here anyway
that I can come back to in a few weeks time.
So just about to head back along the trail
to find my next location,
when it's one of the occasions where
I'm sort of struggling here
and it is like finding, what's the phrase?
"can't see the forest for all the trees".
And that's exactly my problem here,
in this part of the location.
But I've just stumbled
across this little vignette.
And I think, when the leaves do change color,
we're gonna have that soft reds, oranges,
in the foreground leading through
out the back behind this.
Again, these trees here from,
whether it's from Japan or China,
I'm not sure leading through to
the eucalyptus forest behind.
So we're gonna get that contrast
I was looking for between the evergreen trees native
to Australia, but in the foreground, we're gonna have
those deciduous trees from around the world.
So really excited.
So if the images worked out, I'll pop it up now.
(soothing music)
(birds chirping)
That's birds following me around, that's weird.
So, it's been an absolutely spectacular morning.
I hope you've really enjoyed
traveling through this mini-forest
here in the arboretum,
There's so much more to see and do.
And I look forward to bringing you back here
in a few weeks time when the
kaleidoscope of colors comes through.
So the next video you're gonna wanna watch is that video.
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I'll see you the next video. Bye for now.