After walking out from Sam Poh Tong, there is a path to go to the pamelo stalls, the trees are along the path.  It was about 1:00pm and the sun was 90 degree above us in a cloudy sky.  The sky was blue enough to make good photos.

-  Artistic branches of a tree.  Although it was bold, it was accompanied by green coloured grass.

The first three pictures here have been added +1EV to the exposure under the evaluative metering mode.  I make the sky lighter but luckily still look blue enough.  By adding +1EV, it gives more detail on the trees and grass.
In photography, it’s not easy to deal with the sky because it is bright and its foreground is darker.  Therefore I suggest that you can try to use a feature in the camera called bracketing if your camera has one.

-  The branches look like the antler of a deer.

There is a lens flare in the picture above, can you find it?  Lens flare is the ghost image that enters the camera at certain angle, especially the sun.  It is the internal reflextion that happens in the lenses element.  A lens hood can solve the problem, but sometime a photographer may purposely include the lens flare in the photos to create an artistic effect.  My camera comes with a lens hood, but I did not use it.  Now I understand why a photographer need to carry a big bag which I don’t like to.

-  I have used exposure bracketing to take this picture.  I like the sky in the darker photo because it look blue, but I like the leaves on the brighter because it gives beautiful yellowish green colour.  I have tried to make them into HDR but finally find that it does not look real and natural.  Therefore I choose the photo with correct exposure.
The leaves became semi-transparents because of the sun light that shine behind them.

-  Another HDR attemp, but instead of selecting the HDRed picture, the correct exposure shot is selected.  The outcome of the HDR turn the photo into a painting which I am not going to post it here.

-  The tree was between a red house and a car.  A person was standing beside the car.

What is your feeling when you see the photo which is brighter than usual?  Does it tell you that it was a very hot afternoon hour?  Check on the shadow of the tree, and you will know what time I took this photo.

This is a High Key photo.  High Key is a technique in photography to give upbeat mood.  It can be done by purposely over exposes the photo or control the light sources to give a bright effect.

There are many things to try in photography,
and I’m still trying.

There are many things to learn in photography,
and I’m still learning.

There are many things that I want to capture in photography,
and I’m still capturing.