Sunday, October 12, 2008

October Color













© 2008 Mike McDowell

9 Comments:

At 2:25 PM, Anonymous Vickie said...

Gorgeous colors! Thanks for posting.

 
At 7:57 AM, Anonymous Ruth's Photo Blog said...

Beautiful!Nothing campres to the fall foliage.

 
At 6:55 AM, Anonymous Marty Phillips said...

I used the leaves for my background on my computer for this month, Hope that's OK? Marty

 
At 7:03 AM, Anonymous benk said...

Gorgeous. How did you get that top photo with leaves on the white background, and the shadows all perfect? I've always hated my "staged" photos; any advice to a poor soul whose intentions are good?

 
At 10:55 AM, Anonymous Mike McDowell said...

Benk,

The leaves are real - all taken from the same tree. They were arranged on white paper and photographed. In photoshop, I cropped the leaves and made a duplicate layer. With the bottom layer I filled the leaves with black and then did a gaussian blur with a strong enough value to create the artificial shadow. Yep...it's a photoshop job!

Cheers,

Mike

 
At 3:30 PM, Anonymous Peace B W/U said...

POW! Great shots. Looks like our neighborhood. The reds and oranges are real intense this year.

 
At 6:12 PM, Anonymous Todd Dixon said...

Wow! Those colors jump out at you.

 
At 12:18 PM, Anonymous Kyle said...

Wow, Mike. Absolutely beautiful fall colors! And I love the rainbow leaves -- great effect!

One of these days I'm going to spend October traveling somewhere that actually has color like this in the fall. Here all we have is green... until the one weekend when everything turns brown overnight and falls in one massive thump.

~Kyle

 
At 6:18 PM, Anonymous Tabib said...

Beautiful colour!
I have never seen this (really!).

 

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