Friday, May 7, 2010

Blue skies and lilacs

“Blue skies smiling at me… Nothing but blue skies could it be. Blue skies singing a song…Nothing but blue skies all day long.” Thank you Irving Berlin for that cheery ditty. I came across a post on a photography blog about the effect of twilight sky on photos- particularly when hit with a flash. Our lilacs are particularly wonderful this year so I headed out in to the dusk and decided to give it a try. I took some with and with out flash just for reference and then a few days later I took more in mid-afternoon daylight. You be the judge. So you aren’t confused there are 4 different types of lilacs represented- the traditional light purple, white, dark purple, and a variegated one. There are also a few shots of my hubby’s redbud tree. I couldn’t resist all those pink blooms.

 

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  These are the same lilacs at the same time of day with out he flash.lilacs and blue light 024 lilacs and blue light 025

Without…

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Clint’s redbud tree.

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These are all mid afternoon light.

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2 comments:

Goodboy Norman Featherstone said...

Beautiful! Thanks for the link!

Kifus said...

Happy Mother's Day Pam!

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