How to Take Fall Photos

Screw a UV filter onto the lens of your DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera. This filter will help increase the contrast of your images and eliminate haze from excess light.

Look for smaller subjects to photograph. A single small leaf can have as much complexity and beauty as the tree it fell from. Make sure the subject has plenty of light to bring out all its detail.

Make large compositions. A photograph of a long, tree-lined road, for example, can illustrate the complexity and variety of color of the season. Large subjects like fields and forests can make for excellent fall landscapes.

Isolate single colors. Foliage sometimes changes color in a uniform way, so that an entire tree or the ground surrounding it may have a single color. This creates fields of color that make for good photography subjects.

Capture images of patterns. A grove of trees with one tree of a different color, or a group of bushes with only one still with leaves can make a poignant subject. Either repetition or breaking repetition makes for suitable pattern photographs.

Adjust your camera's white balance setting. Most cameras have a white balance setting for normal light conditions like sunlight, fluorescent and tungsten light. Adjusting your white balance setting for the incorrect setting can create dynamic color effects. For example, taking photos in bright daylight with the fluorescent white balance setting will add a "cool" blue color temperature to the images.

Shoot just before sunset. Sunlight at sunset has a more orange color temperature, which gives photographs a more golden color tone.