250503 Toronto High Park Cherry Blossoms GF3 Yongnuo 42.5 F1.7 (Stills)

[VidThreeNorth]

Today was overcast, but without rain. This can be good for cherry blossoms, so I headed out with the setup. The GF3 is a Micro 4/3 sensor camera, so this Yongnuo 42.5mm lens has the equivalent view of an 85mm lens on a "Full Frame" camera. The statue in the last image is fairly recent. I have photographed it before, but I don't remember uploading an image of it. She is "Lesya Ukrainka" and the base of the statue calls her "The Greatest Ukrainian Poetess".
[2025-06-15 Added lens brand.]

 

[nerwin]

Love cherry blossoms! Great photos that lens seems to produce some rather good and interesting rendering on the M43 sensor.

 

[jeffashman]

Nice shots!

 

[VidThreeNorth]

I went back yesterday, but that was the "wrong" day. I should have been back, maybe a couple of days after that first visit. I might have caught some of the petals dropping. Instead, I got mainly bare trees. From the start of the blooms to the end is about a couple of weeks. As a guess, I think I should have started going down around Apr 21 and I might have caught the start of it all. Maybe next year?

 

[VidThreeNorth]

I have uploaded a video recording that I made with the same GF3 body, but using the Lumix 14-42 F3.5-5.6 zoom lens:

"250509 Toronto High Park Cherry Blossoms - Lumix GF3"
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I set the exposure a bit low in order to protect color saturation. In retrospect, this was a mistake, but not a horrible one.