Fall - leaves falling off a birch tree in morning sunlight Acrylic Print

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"Fall"
I've wanted to photographically capture leaves "in the act of falling" for quite a while, and saw a chance a few mornings ago, after a heavy frost. I noticed a birch at my mom's house where the background was still in shade, but leaves were steadily/slowly falling, and well-lit by rising sun, so I set up tripod and took a longggg exposure (45 seconds) using a special dark filter. Result was NOTHING - the falling leaves just "disappeared" into the murky blur. I was very disappointed. So immediate next attempt was to take 25 shortish (1/15 second) sequential exposures, capturing (hopefully) maybe one or two falling leaves in each frame and then combine them all together, resulting in the image shown here. I'll give this another try sometime with a bit longer exposures to give even more falling-blur, but this was "close" to what I had in mind.

Image captured 10/7/22.

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...