Saturday, April 24, 2010

Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival - Easter Weekend

My parents were down to visit us over the Easter weekend.  For the most part, the weather was a cold mess, but at least it didn't snow.  The four of us were each armed with a camera and spent three hours each trying to capture what our eye saw, and our artistic interpretation of the gorgeous and colorful tulip fields given the lens we each had.


I had the 70-200mm lens and concentrated more on isolating interesting tulips, while dad and Traci both had wide angle zoom lenses (17mm-50 or 70mm) and mom had a point and shoot camera.

  We all enjoyed the time in the tulip fields.  If you have never seen them, it is worth the trip.  These fields are just so pretty to see.

Below are dad's two favorite photos after we touched them up in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.  He was amazed how quickly this software could make a photo look great!



Mom is not into photography to the degree that the rest of us are, but she sure enjoys flowers.  So, she didn't mind us taking so long taking photos.


Here is a photo of Traci that mom took.  This is the technique Traci used to get the shot that was everyone's favorite from the previous post.

2 comments:

  1. TerryApril 25, 2010 at 10:48 PM

    There is a very good reason that one sees so many photographers at these tulip events. The photo opportunities are everywhere and one can hardly take a bad shot. You have some more winners posted here. And now I know the secret to the yellow tulip shot. How creative! My Nikon D5000 has the viewing screen flip down from the body of the camera so I can place the camera at ground level without standing on my head or laying in the mud, and still get a perfect view. If I bent over like Tracy, I might not ever get up again!

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  2. Derek, Colleen, Sarah and JacobApril 30, 2010 at 1:06 PM

    Ok, so I think we need to come for this tulip event. I absolutely LOVE the photos....especially the one of Traci upside down :)

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