Why Fall is Magical for Photographers

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:00:49 GMT

Fall is one of the best times of year to be a photographer. It’s not just about the rich vibrant colors of the foliage either. Fall holds many attractions for photographers.

Beautiful Light

A byproduct of the shorter days is longer blue and golden hours. The sun’s trajectory being much lower means the time of golden light and long shadows is significantly longer than in the summer. This in turn gives us time to relax and get more great shots. The cooler weather of fall also means less pollution and hence clearer skies.

Yellows, Reds and Golds

Of course fall is renown for the vibrant saturated colors of dying foliage. But it is also more than that. It is a time of harvest, sunflowers, vineyards, wheat, rapeseed and many other crops. Each has its own unique color creating a quilted pattern across the autumnal landscape.

The trees all drop leaves at different times which gives us that riot of color at the red end of the spectrum. Meanwhile the evergreens remain ever green providing color relief to our images.

Shorter Days

Whilst at first glance that might seem an odd statement, what it really means is sunrise is later and sunset, earlier. Anyone getting up to shoot twilight on a summer morning will have to be out of bed not much after 4am. Autumn sunrise times are much later, depending on where you are. The same is true for the evening, no waiting around until gone 9pm for the blue hour, you can shoot some great shots and still have time to grab a drink before the bars close.

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Why Fall is Magical for Photographers

Beautiful Light

Yellows, Reds and Golds

Shorter Days