To start off, spring has its goods and bads. It has been giving me allergies, so I feel like my nose runs miles everyday. On the other hand, spring is soo beautiful. Anyway, enjoy these pictures. By the way, I photoshopped a bunch of these a little bit. The 5th, 6th, and 8th pictures are my favorite.
This is the bud that has bloomed from that tree. See Up in the Tree to see the bud. It is really interesting to see how the leaf sprouts and you can also see the flowers coming on the side.
These flowers are from the same exact tree from the picture above. Those flower buds and leaves bloomed into this. This picture is quite nice because there is a lot of back light, but it makes the flower a little dull.
This is a zoomed out view of the picture above. You can see all the flowers, and more specifically the main flower that is in focus.
This is also a similar but photoshopped version of the second picture. Temperature was added, sharpening, and contrast. The photoshop looks a little unnatural because there is too much warmth. The thing with temperature is that temperature is added to make the picture warm. Photographers call this, The Golden Light, which is at sunrise and sunset. At these two times, the sunlight appears to have a warm feeling to it. If you watch a person in the sunlight all day, you would notice that the person looks warmer in the morning. When the sun is up high in the sky, the person would look bright. The sunlight is very bright and piercing. So, photographers tend to aviod this time. Then as the sun starts to set, the sunlight on the person begins to warm again. When the warmed sunlight is called The Golden Light. When photographers want touch to their pictures, they will add temperature becuase temperature acts just like warm sunlight. So, in the picture below, there is too much temperature. It looks unnatural because of the vibrant blue sky in the background.
This is one of my favorite pictures. Yes, it is photoshopped but it looks great. This is a flower I placed on the bark. I think the reason it looks great is because of the amount of detail in the picture and the effect placed on the picture. (There is a toned down effect on it. It tones down the vibrancy of the picture.)
This was a total zoomed out view of the tree. You can see that it is photoshopped because there is an unnatural amount of temperature again.
This was also one of my favorites because half of the picture is a green and the other a pink. (There are two different trees)
This was a flower picture from the tree on the left (The green tree.) It was taken days before the other pictures. This is one of my favorites too because you get a good amount of natural light and a blurred background. Those two together always look great. Plus, just in general, it looks like a bright and inviting picture.
