a walk under cherry blossomes

[yoshi]

taken on an overcast morning four days ago. She seemed to have a digicam in hands.
yoshi

[Stephen]

Re: a walk under cherry blossomes

taken on an overcast morning four days ago. She seemed to have a digicam in hands.
yoshi

Hi Yoshi, what a glorious scene this would be with some sunshine coming through the cherry blossom. It would surely lift the whole photos. As it is the picture is a little flat, though obviously interesting nevertheless.

I think I would have positioned the camera rather differently though. The larger tree in the foreground, takes too much of the viewers attention. I think I would have placed it more to the left so it framed the photo with the tree on the right. This would have placed the bridge in a more central position. As things are I feel the area to the left of the larger tree is totally wasted and adds nothing to the scene.

As for the figure you say looks to be carrying a digicam, this is not clear to us from this picture, however being Japanese we can well believe it

[Tinka]

Re: a walk under cherry blossomes

Hi a lovely image , shame about the dullness, this however may be able to be lifted in PS or PSP or another imaging program, I personaly feel that the image is well ballanced and pleasing to the eye.

[Tom]

Re: a walk under cherry blossomes

It's one of those that you can almost smell the blossom as you view. Just before the bridge there is a very nice set of steps just barely visible. Sometimes a little adjustment in curves in PPS can give a scene a little boost to compensate a little for the lack of sunshine. Very lovely scene. You got yourself in to a nice position for this.

[Caz]

Re: a walk under cherry blossoms

Beautiful colours, although on my monitor (which I wouldn't put much faith in!!) some of them are a little hazy.

A tranquil scene, really like it.

Caz

[yoshi]

Re: a walk under cherry blossomes

Thanks a lot for your comments, Stephen, Tinka, Tom and Caz.


1) the colour tones - not ideal for cherry blosssoms
2) the tree on the left hand side - originally i wanted to mimimize the possible blowing out of the sky by the twigs/leaves of the tree BUT it devided the frame into two
3) my long term concern - whether to include the sky or not - i have tendency to include it in order to get more depth feeling on the 2D frame but always have a risk of blowing out - i hate it but somehow I can not change myself.

will practice more

it was a nice walk for me too - I just regret it was not photographically but in terms of physical excersises.

thanks again. yoshi