Spring by The Blonde

I loved this one! Spring is my favourite time of year, and is always marked most strongly for me by the blossom on the trees and the spring flowers bursting out of the ground as if from nothing! I  had good fun learning some new techniques on this one also. As I had great trouble trying to focus and get the exposure correct on these tiny buds way up in a tree. I used my zoom lens and a  small aperture to throw the background out of focus, and found a great setting on my camera that lets you manually focus as close as you can and then press the shutter half way for the camera to get it tack sharp using autofocus. As when I tried to allow the camera to fully find focus itself it just kept cycling in and out confused by the sky and the branches and unable to focus on something as small as the buds. I also used spot metering to enable me to choose the exact bud to get exposure on, as again the weighted centre balanced metering was confused by the bright sky. So a shot I love, and two new settings on my camera found and used, that's what I call a win win! In the film strip below I also experimented with some other buds, and taking photo's of the ubiquitous daffodil from a new angle.