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The cherry blossoms were in bloom in Vancouver while we were there, although I have to wonder whether they are still doing so well in the wake of the snow Vancouver just got. Then, too, that snow apparently cleared up rather quickly.

It was raining when I took this picture, and two drops of water found their way on to the lens (or, rather, the filter in front of the lens) before I could get the shot off. That’s kind of a pity, although I think the picture still works in spite of them. This is an apartment tower in downtown Vancouver, near Coal Harbour, and it provides a nice backdrop indeed for the pink cherry blossoms.

Edit-wise, I actually wound up reducing the purple and magenta saturations to -100, effectively cutting them out of the scene in order to reduce some very harsh chromatic aberration on the parts of the tree that have the sky as a backdrop. The sky required a lot of highlight reduction as well, although to be fair there wasn’t much detail in it that needed to be recovered — sometimes a grey cloud is just a grey cloud.

I applied the usual calibration/Punch preset that I always used, and also boosted the red and aqua saturations — the red, of course, comes out in the cherry blossoms, while the aqua comes out in the apartment (or, more likely, condominium) windows.

Now, if only there were some way to keep rain off of a camera lens when said lens is pointed straight up!

~ by Kenneth on April 20, 2008.