Ok, it’s just about officially winter, even here in Arizona. Take advantage of whatever leaves you have left and have some fun.

If you want to get the quintessential leaf toss photograph you need to be aware of a few things.

You need to make sure your people don’t look up too high into the air after tossing the leaves or you’ll see nothing but chins and nostrils.

The other big annoyance is that you’re gonna wind up with the vast majority of your pictures being ruined by random leaves covering up peoples’ faces.

You just have to make sure you shoot enough frames to get a really good one, or have enough Photoshop skills to strip a good “non leaf covered” face for the one that is blocked.

In fact, while I was writing this post I decided to do a video photoshop tutorial of how to do just that.  If everything goes well, I’ll post it on the blog tomorrow.

In the meantime, if you live in an area where the trees aren’t completely bare, good luck with the  leaf tossing or leaf fights or whatever else kind of “leaf activities” you decide capture with your camera.

For those of you who have been wanting to sign up for the next photo workshop, I’ll be announcing the February starting date pretty soon.