Scanniclift Copse

The copse is utterly lush with bluebells and wild garlic. Spent another 4 hours there today. Decided on wellies and waterproof trousers after getting so wet last week, but still got just as wet. Not that it mattered. Focused on the deadwood as focal points. This one printed up quite well. Even though it was overcast the bluebells rather washed out in the pictures. In the RAW conversion I reduced the lumninance and increased the saturation of the blues and greens. Am slowly learning to love the histogram and believe that rather than the screen. Played with the menu of my camera while I was sheltering from a downpour and discovered I have a mirror lock-up on my Canon 350D. Buried deep in the menu so I didn’t know it was there. Also darkened the preview screen a little to better tally with the histogram. Tried with some of the pictures to take several with a different focal point for each in the hope I would blend them in photoshop and get a full foreground-background sharpness. But each movement of the focus ring slightly jogged the zoom as well so they don’t match well enough.

Ramson and fallen sycamore

Not sure if the dead tree trunk is Sycamore, but I liked the unusal markings and used it to contrast with and give depth to the carpet of Ransoms. Fairly pleased with the focus and depth of field in this one.