So I know I haven't updated this in a long time but I got kept getting caught up with things and was out of town for a while. However I did finally manage to take some pictures last week. Every year my father-in-law wants to see the cherry blossoms in High Park and every year he misses them. So this year I decided that since I live very close to there I would take him. At first I thought that I forgot my camera but I went through my son's diaper bag and it turns out that my husband had put it in there weeks ago. Waahoooo!!!!!!.
Basically my goal behind this was not only to take some pics of cherry blossoms but to also try to liven them up by experimenting with different angles. I find that my pics always look a little flat and I was hoping if I experimented with the where focal point of the pic was I could take some better pics.
Anyways here they are (sorry for the crappy writing but I have a really bad cold and am half asleep):
For the picture above I became really interested in watching other people interact with the trees and this woman seemed so amazed by them and if you look you will notice that she doesn't have a camera or anything with her but she seems find the tree almost magical. Then I felt guilty for taking her picture.
Of the two above I really prefer the second one just because of the way that the flowers snake around the tree.
My husbands favourite pic. I was actually inspired by someone else who took a picture of her chandelier at this angle and it turned out pretty cool. However, they don't look so interesting in black and white.
That I really like about this pic is the effect that the wind has on the cherry blossoms. You can tell it was a windy day out.
My photo buddy! He's a really smiley kid just but usually not for the camera so this was kind of sweet.
Again, a picture on someone taking a picture...I have the same thing in colour too.
This first of these two pics was on a normal setting, but the second one was on the foliage setting so you can see how the aperature changes (the corners are a tad blurry to make this effect).
This final pic was taken on my vibrant setting. The picture itself is not so great but I was getting really dull photos before I used this effect.
Now for my worst photo:
I tried the colour swap technique, it didn't work so well (as you can see). I also think having one part of the tree and sticking it right in the middle of the photo didn't help either.
If you have a chance check out the cherry blossoms this week (if you're in Toronto). Go soon though, they only last a few weeks.
