My yearly day off dedicated to photography .

Every year i took a day off at my job so that i can go alone taking photos during a complete day, habitually during the year i only go for 2 to 3 hours sessions on the week-ends or i bring my camera with me when i’m going to work, that’s all the time i have. My favorite place is to drive the dirt road along the Rouge river in the town of  Grenville-sur-la-rouge here in the Province of  Quebec, Canada.

I visited that river in every seasons and the fall season is my favorite, plenty of possibilities and often there is fog in the morning. So this time it’s in autumn that i went there, i was hoping to get good shots. The Meteo was on my side, it rained the night before and there was some fog in the morning with practically no wind !

Since i was not walking much, i packed my camera bag with more equipment than if  i would have needed to walk long distances in the forest. I didn’t packed my 400mm since wildlife was not my main interest even if i always see deers along the road. I wanted to concentrated on the colorful trees and the river. An important piece of equipment for fall photography, especially when everything is wet, is a polarizer filter since it helps remove reflections off  the leaves and give punch to the colors.

It started quite well, at my first stop i managed to get a good shot of the river.

I liked the small tree and the trunk on the shore of the river they made for an interesting foreground.

Pentax K-01, DA*50-135 at 50mm, ISO 100, 0.4 sec. at f/11, with a polarizer, tripod.

Here is another one taken from the same place, i just walked to the right of the tree trunk that you can see on the photo above.

Pentax K-01, DA*50-135 at 50mm, ISO 100, 1 sec. at f/11, with a polarizer, tripod.

Along the road there is a smaller river that crosses the road under a bridge, i always stop and walk along it to find subjects to shoot. As usual i did get some interesting shots, even found a Green frog that was cooperative!

I did a short video to show you my set-up of how i took the next photo:

river shooting

Here is the shot i got from the video, i cropped the upper part to remove distracting branches.

Pentax K-01, FA20, ISO 100, 2.5 sec. at f/11, with a polarizer, tripod.

Now, some more photos i took on this small river:

Pentax K-01, DA35 Macro Ltd, ISO 100, 4 sec. at f/13, with polarizer, tripod.

I tried different ISO to get the effect i wanted with enough DOF to keep everything sharp.

Pentax K-01, DA35 Macro Ltd, ISO 640, 0.8 sec. at f/14, with polarizer, tripod.

Pentax K-01 with DA14, ISO 160, 0.4 sec. at f/4, tripod.

Sony NEX-3 with Sigma 19mm, ISO 400, 0.5 sec. at f/11,  tripod.

Found a Green frog on the shore of the river, she was kind enough to let me get close with my DA14.

Pentax K-01 with DA14, ISO 1600, 1/30 sec. at f/8, handheld with SR activated.

When it started to rain i switched to my K20D with my DA*50-135mm.

Pentax K20D with DA*50-135 at 50mm, ISO 200, 3 sec. at f/14, polarizer, tripod.

Every photo outing have an end, it was time to go back home. Here is one of the last photo i took of the river.

Pentax K-01 with DA*50-135 at 75mm, ISO 200,1/5 sec. at f/9, polarizer, tripod.