More Colorado Aspens - Landscape Photography

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 3:39pm - Landscape

When I was in Colorado, I decided to do a study in the aspens.  To just immerse myself and try some new things, push myself, and get outside my comfort range.  Typically when shooting landscapes, I use a smaller aperture in an effort to increase the depth of field; where typically when I shoot people I go for a larger aperture to lessen the depth of field and make the subjects pop.  Well I decided to try that in the aspens, and had a blast.  A lot of these images were shot at f 1.2, and it was really cool to play with the selective focus.  I also tried to play around with some black and white conversions.  I´ll be honest, I tend to see the world in color when shooting.  So playing with the images later really allows me to "see" in a new way, and converting images to black and white is something that I´m really starting to enjoy.  Do you have any favorites?  What are your thoughts?