{"id":1748,"date":"2011-04-17T23:47:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-04-17\/1748"},"modified":"2011-04-17T23:47:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T14:47:12","slug":"another-cherry-blossom-stroll-on-a-lazy-kyoto-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-04-17\/1748","title":{"rendered":"Another Cherry-Blossom Stroll on a Lazy Kyoto Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>3200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nGlowy<\/span>\n
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It was a nice day, so I stepped out for a short<\/span> stroll with the camera. Many cherry trees have lots of stems and few blossoms,\nlike in the photo below, but some still have large complements of blossoms. With the photo above, I put the<\/span> sun behind the blossoms\nand tried to expose for the blossoms, but the result wasn't particularly good, but on a whim<\/span> I cranked<\/span> up the exposure in Lightroom,\nand the result has a nice<\/span> dreamy glow, as if I had<\/span> applied the Funky Joy<\/a> touch-up\nas I did<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Part of the effect could be that the wind was whipping the branches around and I was<\/span> mostly shooting blindly.<\/p>\n\n

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<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nHere They Are Together<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Here are a couple more of the “over-exposed glowy” variety...<\/p>\n\n

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My destination for the stroll was a yaezakura<\/i> cherry tree, which\nfeatures late-blooming mixed-color ultra-puffy blossoms that Martha Stewart might have\ndesigned. Blooming in late April, it is the tree featured on my “10 Gallons of\nBlossoms on a 5-Gallon Branch<\/a>” post, and in this 2008 Kyoto Cherry-Blossom\nPreview<\/a>. Today, in mid April, it had just started to bloom...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2000 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nJust Getting Started<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

The blossoms aren't necessarily all that attractive up close when they're blooming, but even less so as they're just emerging...<\/p>\n\n

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The one white blossom in that clump seemed appropriate for Exploring the Edge\nof Creamy Macro Bokeh<\/a>, but it didn't come out all that well, but here's\none where I did<\/span> a good<\/span> job of getting most of the edge in focus, so perhaps\nit's worth a try<\/span> as a vertical<\/span> desktop background...<\/p>\n\n

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Elsewhere on the tree was a long bare branch hanging down, ending in a clump<\/span> of blossoms....<\/p>\n\n

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A different kind of tree not far away had lots of little growths on the\nstems.... not sure what's going on, but it looks like it's supposed to be\nthat way, I guess.<\/span>..<\/p>\n\n

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Lines at the bus stops got long as others out for the area's blossoms and museums headed home...<\/p>\n\n

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Finally, I stopped<\/span> by to check on the Lily of the Nile that I posted\nabout a week<\/span> ago<\/a>. I noticed<\/span> that it had collected some cherry-blossom petals...<\/p>\n\n

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But it was speckled with black bits of something that made me want to clean my computer monitor while inspecting\nthe shots in Lightroom. In fact, I did clean<\/span> my monitor, but the photos remained the same. So perhaps<\/span> I'll wait until\nafter a rain<\/span> to check in on them again. But from afar<\/span>, they always look pretty....<\/p>\n\n

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It was a nice day, so I stepped out for a short stroll with the camera. Many cherry trees have lots of stems and few blossoms, like in the photo below, but some still have large complements of blossoms. With the photo above, I put the sun behind the blossoms and tried to expose for the blossoms, but the result wasn't particularly good, but on a whim I cranked up the exposure in Lightroom, and the result has a nice dreamy glow, as if I had applied the Funky Joy touch-up as I did here.<\/p>

Part of the effect could [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,1,2,6,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}