Yellow fields

There are some ideas of pictures that you always keep in your mind and never take. You just think always "next time", because it is so easy and everywhere, and this "next time" might never come. 
The yellow fields that are everywhere in this time of the year were for me one of these ideas...

So, finally I did it.. I took some pictures of these bright yellow fields. And actually, considering the weather conditions, it appeared to be not that straightforward...

Though the weather was very good for such scenery, there were certain factors that made it a little bit complicated to take the shots I wanted.

First of all, though it was a day time, there was not enough light to use lowest possible ISO. So, I had to increase at first to ISO 200, and then finally to ISO 320. 

 

24mm; f/22; 1/60 sec; ISO 320

 

Secondly, I had to wait and quickly react, when sun suddenly came out of the cloud, because then the color of the field and the juxtaposion of the field and the sky was the best. 
 

 

68mm; f/22; 1/60 sec; ISO 320

And the main problem was, that though I was using tripod, I could not go down to very low shutter speed, because it was very windy, and to maintain the focus I had to go down to not more than 1/60 sec. I didn't want to increase aperture too much, so that depth of field was enough for this kind of picture. In other words, I just wanted all these yellow flowers through the whole picture stay in focus area.

 

12mm; f/20; 1/80 sec; ISO 320

For the last shot it was a compromise, where I went down to f/20, because I was not using tripod there.

In general - I like the colors, I like these little yellow flowers and contrast against the cloudy sky. This is one of the good things about summer - you can find a lot of colors everywhere.