The travel theme this week at Where’s my backpack? is hot. For this challenge I decided to take one photo from the Forest Park Balloon Festival and edit it two different ways:
ISO 100 50mm 0ev f/16 1/400
and:
ISO 100 50mm 0ev f/16 1/400
Both versions were edited using Photomatix. The obvious difference here is the color vs. black and white. One thing I did differently with the two which might not be as obvious was that I changed the exposure bracketing. The version that is color includes a photo where the exposure was very high. I did that to bring out the blue in the balloon which was not visible in the original unedited photo. The bracketing on the black and white version is much closer together.
Which do you prefer? Which do you think works better with the theme? Have an opinion? please share it in the comment section.
Cheers!
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I like the color photo. The colors are vibrant
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Thank you, and thanks for commenting 🙂
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for this theme, I’m going to have to say the colored pic that are more true to the experience of the fire & its fumes as they dance around – beautifully done
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment 🙂 I agree. I found it hard to really express the idea of hot it black and white, it was easier in color.
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I think the colour one works better – greater feeling of the heat.
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Thanks for your comment. I agree.
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Excellent photo. 🙂
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Thanks!
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I really like both. However, since the theme is “Hot”, I will say the colour one is best.
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Thanks, I think you are right.
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I’ve got to go with the colour one too, I can feel the heat from here!
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Thanks so much for your comment and for the weekly challenges, I enjoy them.
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