How would a falling leaf look like in mid air. I mean a free falling leaf under the influence of gravity ? This photo tries to answer that question.

Photo setup

1. A green leaf would fall down very fast like a stone and I would not get that floating effect. For this I had to pick a dry leaf from my garden. A dry leaf would sail through the wind and land gracefully on the floor. Once I got the suitable leaf, I had to find a suitable location where the sun’s light would cast a shadow directly on the wall. I had also thought about the scenario where there would be no shadow but the leaf  fall should be perfect so as to make the shape beautiful
2. I chose to go with the shadow of the leaf
3. The shutter speed had to be up all the way to 1/1000, because we were capturing something in motion
4. Tripod was used to avoid any kind of shake

Details about the cover image

Post processing

1. Contrast was increased and the color was changed to a more brownish evening look
2. Image was cropped to 3/4 its size
3. Using perspective tool ( in GIMP ) the image was straightened out a bit

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