My plan for this shoot was so capture things I love about fall in one picture! I really wanted there to be multiple ideas about fall that make you love it! These are really just photos of what I love about fall, but I'm hoping to take a few more pictures that include things other people might like about fall. I really wanted to capture fall colors and leaves as well as the feelings that come with fall!
My Shoot:
For this shoot I really wanted to incorporate the things that I LOVE about fall! Do I incorporated a book because I love to read, leaves because of their color, and a coffee mug that has my favorite football team on it as well as represents warm drinks during fall. I love the football season is during fall and I wanted a way to include that so I used a mug that fit with fall colors, but also represented Oklahoma State. It is a tradition that everyone game OSU has we all gather in the living room and watch the game together and eat nachos.
For the majority of these photos I worked in Lightroom because I really just wanted to do universal edits to the whole photo. I messed with the highlights and clarity of the photos to either really bring out colors or to tone them down a little. I mostly wanted to give the pictures a fall feel that brought out the colors of the leaves and blended the picture together.
My Printed Photo:
This photo really captures fall as well as all the things I love about fall! The orange from the mug really stands apart from the darker feel of the photo. i really like that the filter makes it look a little colder, like a mix of fall and winter. I used a book and my favorite college football team mug. Then I picked up some leaves and dropped them over the book and the mug to make it look like the book fit into the setting. I used the the leaves to bring out the fall feel more. I laid down in the leaves to get a straight on view, instead of a view from the top. I used focal point with brightly colored mug that grabbed the viewer attention. The book is not noticed as much because of it's neutral color. I also used color since the orange mug is the only source of color in the whole photo. I wanted to bring down the brightness of the orange so that it fit into the picture a little more to make it look like it fit into the scene. This piece was made to show all the things that make me love fall! I didn't capture all of them, but got the majority of the things that mean so much to me. This photo also captures the colors of fall even though they aren't the main focus. I really like this piece because it includes nature and things that are normally seen being used inside. Some people would prefer to be inside during this time of the year because it is cooler, but I really like that this photo gives it an outdoorsy feel. I would hang this photo in my house because it showcases so many of the things I love.