Fall Shooting

[Mike]

Hi :P

Im looking for a good place to take pictures of the fall leaves. Where is a good place for that?

No season brings out photographers like autumn. It's not only because this is arguably the most colorful time of year — spring, summer and winter are, in their ways, every bit as beautiful.

It's also because no other season reminds us so strongly yet so sweetly that another year has passed, and it is the photographer's annual lot to record it; both to capture its fleeting beauty and to try to stop time in its tracks.

The challenge is to do so in a meaningful way. The fall is such a popular subject that camera-laden tourists are as common as squirrels gathering nuts. We are all familiar with this visual clichi: a country road winding into woods ablaze with golds, reds and yellows, and standing somewhere in the picture, a weathered barn.

Yet you need only take time to consider the pictorial variables at your disposal — which are here grouped into five main areas — to return from an autumn excursion with photographs that are personal and unexpected, whether you use a professional-quality digital or 35-mm single-lens reflex camera or a basic point-and-shoot.

We can find some of the most beautiful locations within the canyons of the Wasatch front. Deep in American Fork Canyon we can find some of the most vivid locations in Utah County. I recommend an off road vehicle to help get you deep into the canyon. Another great location is in Ophir Canyon in the Oquirr Mountain Range. Shooting times are optimum Oct. 1st to the 30th. Remember to take advantage of the warm colors from morning and evening and a polarizer to saturate your colors and assure a full range of exposure.

[April2021]

Re: Fall Shooting

Thanks mike

I have a Canon EOS-300 and a basic 18-55mm lense. It works well for light travel. How do I get to American Fork Canyon? I have heard alot about it. It sounds like a beautiful place.

Thanks bud :P

Ps: Your description of the tourists is cute

[Jolth]

Here is one route to get to AF canyon, there is a few dollars charge to get into the canyon just for upkeep just so that you know


Get yourself onto I-15 and head North (this is if you are coming from BYU) take exit 287 off I-15. This is the Alpine/Highland/Timpanogos Cave exit. Once off I-15, drive east on Utah Highway 92; simply stay N and you will drive directly into American Fork Canyon.

The route that most of us Valley peoples take is to just drive down State Street into Pleasant Grove until you see the Purple Turtle on the right hand side of the road. you take that and follow the road until it takes you directly into the canyon. I myself feel this is a little faster than taking I-15 because you dont have to drive all of the way to Thanksgiving Point.

2 other places i love to go is Bridal Veil Falls in Provo canyon and also up to Sundance just a few more miles up the canyon from the falls. Sundance has a lot of nice horse trails and hiking trails with beautiful scenery. Or if your up to it you can also take the loop that connects AF canyon to Provo where there are a lot of Aspen trees everywhere you look.

Hope that helps

[April2021]

Thanks!

That sounds easy to find. I think I will try and get up there this weekend. I have to take some pictures of the leaves for one of my photo classes. I was at bridal veil falls a couple of weeks ago to experiment with how shutter speeds affect the water, it was beautiful up there. I have heard alot about sundance. Isnt that where they have that film thingy?

Thanks for your help

[Jolth]

There is the Sundance Film Festival, but that is actually up in Park City. Sundance in Provo Canyon is a Ski resort and if i remember right they have a pretty fancy restaurant up there. Some friends of our family have some property up there that we have camped at and also BYU has a cabin up there too. I think there is also a trail that takes you to Stuwart Falls, which i went to in the 4th grade for a hike and it was really pretty. you just cant go wrong with our canyons

[Mike]

Agreed. Sundance is beautiful. The photo's here were taken at sundace. At least the wedding couple was. The other was Idaho.

[joegibbs]

I love pictures of the fall best of all. It give me a feeling of nastalgia and those old good time feelins. Are ya'll going out for a fall shoot?

[Stuart]

Yes sir!

Im planning on going out tomorrow to a couple of canyons and taking some fall pictures. If anyone is interested in going they can tag along.

-Mojaved