Today’s Warm Up: Macro Photos of Backlit Autumn Leaves Explode Color, Texture.

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After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What is the driving force behind the brilliance of these images? What makes them so beautiful? What decisions did the photographer make as far as how to present them in the frame, composition? What ideas do you get for your own work out of this?

18 Replies to “Today’s Warm Up: Macro Photos of Backlit Autumn Leaves Explode Color, Texture.”

  1. They are all stunning photos and where created fairly simple. He put the leaves on a glass table and got them to stay plat as possible by tapping them on a white piece of white paper on a glass table. I get the idea of getting up and close to objects that I use on the daily such as a pencil or basketball.

  2. The texture in these photos are amazing because they show the patterns close up and are pretty. these pictures look like there is a close up picture and a distance picture to see the textures more detail.

  3. What is the driving force behind the brilliance of these images? The bright colors and the shapes.
    What makes them so beautiful? The color and the texture of the leaves.
    What decisions did the photographer make as far as how to present them in the frame, composition? At what angle he would take the photos and where he would he take the photo up close to take a picture of the textures of the leaves.

  4. What is the driving force behind the brilliance of these images?the light and paper under the leaves. What makes them so beautiful? that it emphasizes the texture of the leaf. What decisions did the photographer make as far as how to present them in the frame, composition? making them more bright. What ideas do you get for your own work out of this? to do close up pictures with a light back ground

  5. The pictures are very up close and you can see the textures of it that may not be visible to the eye itself. I remember doing a picture like this in my photography 1 class and we used the lens that came with the camera. But, it this photo, it seems that they may have used a micro lens to be up close.

  6. I think what makes these photos so beautiful is the texture and patterns that are in the leaves and how good and appealing they were when the photographer got the super close ups. This gives me the idea to do different zoom length of objects and put them side by side to compare.

  7. the photos being so close up. what makes these pictures nice is the texture and how close they are. how close to zoom in the photo. to take a picture close up of something that has texture like trees or something.

  8. What is the driving force behind the brilliance of these images? These images are so closeup that you can see almost every little detail. the subject. What makes them so beautiful? The background gives the leaves that pop and makes the colors stand out. What decisions did the photographer make as far as how to present them in the frame, composition? showed the original leaf then showed the zoomed in version where you can see every detail. What ideas do you get for your own work out of this? Do some close up shots of some leaves.

  9. these photos are so beautiful because it shows something that the human eye cant really see. and there is so much lighting and the photos i s so crisp its hard not to like these photos, it makes me have a lot of ideas for my own work.

  10. What is the driving force behind the brilliance of these images?
    All of the detail.
    What makes them so beautiful?
    How the colors compliment each.
    What decisions did the photographer make as far as how to present them in the frame, composition?
    He made the pictures big and close up.
    What ideas do you get for your own work out of this?
    Making pictures that stand out from others with its details.

  11. the author just being creative in a different way. its beautiful to me in a way because its almost like snake scales, but there leafs. by taping it to the paper and adding light. it gives me the ideo of just being a little more creative

  12. The driving force behind the brilliance of these images is the closeness of the photos, it shows what we normally don’t see. The total vibrancy makes them so beautiful. The decisions the photographer made as far as how to present them in the frame is to make the leaves take over the photo, to fill the image. I could use these techniques to accent handwriting.

  13. theses pictures and the leafs have so much color and patterns and the colors are all over the place but that’s what makes the leaf so beautiful , the pictures are very focused and the brightness makes a huge impact on the photograph . I love the focus on theses photos

  14. These photos are so up close and personal which makes these images so different and unique. The ideas get for my own work is to get closer to the subject of image.

  15. What is the driving force behind the brilliance of these images?
    They look like different things
    What makes them so beautiful?
    The vibrant colors
    What decisions did the photographer make as far as how to present them in the frame, composition?
    To make it seem as if they are something they arent
    What ideas do you get for your own work out of this?
    Take pictures from differnt angles and zoom in. Some things can be pretty up close

  16. What is the driving force behind the brilliance of these images? What makes them so beautiful? What decisions did the photographer make as far as how to present them in the frame, composition? What ideas do you get for your own work out of this?

    The photographer was trying to capture leaves in a different way and perspective. They look very unique and it’s something you can look another way than just a plain leaf

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