Tag: Fall Woods

Brown County State Park, Indiana, Fall 2020, Part 1

I visited Brown County State Park on the second day of our Fall of 2020 visit to Indiana, where I photographed near a number of pull outs along roadways through the park and while hiking a couple of trails in the park.

This post will consist of the photos made near the roadway.

Dew Drops and Grass, Brown County State Park, Indiana
Indiana Fall, Brown County State Park
Brown County State Park, Indiana
Big Fall Leaves, Brown County State Park, Indiana
Autumn Gold, Brown County State Park, Indiana
Yellow and Green, Brown County State Park, Indiana
A Trio of Fall Maple Leaves, Brown County State Park, Indiana

Thanks for following,

Ken

Indiana Fall 2020, Around the Cabin, Part 2

This post contains more of the images that I made in the wooded area around our cabin in late October, 2020.

Fall Woods, Indiana
Fall Leaves, Indiana
Fall Leaves, Indiana
Fall Leaves, Indiana
Fall Foliage, Indiana
Fall Leaves, Indiana
Misty Fall Woods, Indiana
Misty Fall Woods, Indiana
Misty Fall Woods, Indiana

A few, but not all, of the images in this post have been uploaded to my Flickr page.  More about this visit to Indiana to come,

Ken

Indiana Fall 2020, Around the Cabin, Part 1

In 2019 we were in Indiana the third week of October, which was at least one week early for the peak of fall color.  So we scheduled our 2020 visit for the last week of October, which was projected to be the peak time for fall color there.  Wrong!  The peak came one or two weeks earlier in 2020, then storms the week prior to our visit, removed leaves from most of the mature trees.  Fortunately, there were still a few trees, mostly the ones in the forest understory, with fall foliage remaining.

We stayed in a cabin a few miles from Brown County State Park, which is a popular place for fall foliage viewing.  The first day in the cabin, I walked around the wooded area on which the cabin was located, making images of the remaining fall color.

Fall Woods, Indiana

It was windy and I was shooting handheld, so I used much higher ISO than I liked to get a sufficiently high shutter speed to freeze the motion of the leaves.  Unfortunately, this results in noisy photographs.

Fall Leaves, Indiana

I did what I could to reduce the noise, but there are tradeoff in this process.  Too much noise reduction makes the fuzzy images even more fuzzy.

Fall Woods, Indiana

The high ISO can also result in blown out highlights in portions of images.  I did not use graduated neutral density filters, since these are problematic in wooded areas with no clearcut line between bright areas and darker area in a composition.  I did apply software ND effects, which helps, but software filters are not as good as real physical filters.

Fall Woods, Indiana

To avoid the blown out highlights, I sometimes eliminated the sky in compositions and sometimes cropped out as much of the blown out portions of the images as I could, while trying to maintain a “reasonable” composition.

Fall Woods, Indiana

I was not pleased with many of my photos, even most of the ones that I elected to process, due to these conditions.

Fall Woods, Indiana
Fall Woods, Indiana
Fall Woods, Indiana
Mossy Log, Indiana Fall

And it did not help that I missed the peak color.

Continued later,

Ken