It's what I'm here for..., a photo from Hyogo, Kinki

Photographer's Note

Sakura and vivid blue sky at Himeji Castle. I left Kyoto in the morning under grey sky, which didn't fill me with hope for my Himeji photos, but apparently the Shinkansen bullet train propelled me into an alternate dimension, because I stepped out of the station under blue sky. The cherry blossom was well in bloom there, so I was able to get some shots of the kind I came to Japan for. Himeji made me very happy!

As with my Cherry Blossom in Hiroshima photo, I played with the focus, and as with that one I decided I preferred the foreground focus.

Polarizer makes a huge difference with this shot.

Wanda1, pauloog, Vanessa132, Aedorian, cagla, Bruno40 ha puntuado esta nota como útil.

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bigboroboy (1098) 2009-04-05 2:17

I spent 8 years living in Japan and took 1,000,000 million Sakura photos but none as good as this. Send it to The Japan Times as they will probably stick it on the front page. Much more important than G20, etc.

Phil

Wanda1 (15142) 2009-04-05 5:00

Hi Charlotte,
I really like that you chose to focus on the blossoms and leave the building out of focus, it creates a nice effect. You have chosen a nice segment of the branch of flowers too as their shape perfectly frames the castle, so even though it is out of focus there is still focus upon it due to the framimg...hope I am describing this properly.
Regards
Wanda

pauloog (11751) 2009-04-05 7:46

Hello charlotte,
A fine really Japanese theme well executed with the well selected focus. And simply beautiful to look at.
Regards,
Paul

Vanessa132 (94) 2009-04-05 12:41

Hi Charlotte,
very origainal to focus on the flowers.
well framed with good colors.
regards,
Vanessa

Aedorian (105) 2009-04-05 15:12

A very well-composed and very, very, very Japanese photo! You used the circular polarizer very well--the blue sky really pops out at you.

cagla (4342) 2009-04-06 3:59

I like your composition for this one very much. Beautiful DOF and POV. Thanks to the polarizer making the backgorund color so wonderful for the spring blossoms. Congrats.
Çağla.

sayantan20023 (201) 2009-04-13 7:27

I like this photograph for multiple reasons,
a. Nice Colour.
b. Good Exposure.
c. Nice Bokeh.
d. POV.
e. Shot from 18-55 :D

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,
Sayantan Mukherjee

atif_ge (771) 2009-04-25 10:38

Hi Charlotte,
This is a wonderful idea to take close up of these flowered branches in the front and have a blurry image of beautiful building in the background. I like the way you have composed this shot. Great Photo. Thanks for sharing, ATif

Bruno40 (6658) 2009-05-07 5:52

Hi Charlotte
I envy you so much!. When I visited Himeji it was raining.. I do not have any nice photo of the place... and you got perfect weather with sakura. Great photo, nice composition.
Looking forward to see more photos from Himeji during sakura
cheers
Jorge

tut1nia (75) 2009-10-26 14:35

stunning compositio.nicely framed.