Spring (nearly) - 56K :(

[Sleepyd]

Just two shots that I thought I'd post from last weekend.
Criticism appreciated as ever. FIrst is with the 70-200L, second is from the Tamron 17-35. I quite like the colours I'm getting with both lenses.

 

[Sleepyd]

Very nice photos, that house in the second one doesnt happen to be in the netherlands does it? It looks almost identical to one I know.

No, sorry, it's in Kent - they must have been to the Netherlands& copied it or visa-versa.

Can you tell me how you achieved this? Especially with such a short exposure time?

The short exposure time was down to the fact that it was a faily bright day and I underexposed by 1/3rd of a stop to make sure the sky was as blue as it was. The tricky thing was achieving the focus and getting the metering right - if I had pointed the camera to the sky it would have either hunted or locked focus on a cloud and it would have probably just metered on the sky - making the house somewhat out of focus and dark. So, I focused just in front of the fence, recomposed to get the sky in, then shot it. I'm still experimenting with exposure & hyperfocal distances, but I think I'm getting better.

Thanks for the comments.