Spring is in the air. The flowers are out. Have you been out to shoot? To get the shot you have to be out there ... I typically drive during the middle of the day checking out possible locations before returning in the good light, quickly hitting many spots. On this particular day it was overcast and the light was defused so I decided to shoot.

I liked this tighter image and the placement of the tree. As you know by now I also like depth and I love to use foregrounds to get that depth. So I went searching for some foreground objects. This is the result:

Which one do you like most? Does the lighting work for you (soft and defused)?

          The technique used with the rocks is once again a wide angle lens with me going right close to the rocks to exaggerate their size. With luck your image will be better if your foreground leads into the image. Secondly, defused images can appear flat, just because of the light. To fix that I apply a healthy dose of dynamic contrast to the image in post processing (I use Nik Software's Dynamic Contrast and On1 Software's Dynamic Contrast). In case you wonder, I did not sharpen these images much as the On1 filter seems to make the images look sharp enough for me.

          How about going out for some spring shots?