I was excited to have this picture win an honorable mention in my camera club last week:
ISO 800 50mm -0.33 f/16 1/400
I gave the original photo information in the caption above but this is an HDR image that I created in Photomatix. The day of the Forest Park Balloon Festival the sky was pretty bland all day. It was a bit nicer right as the sun was setting. Using Photomatix really helped make the sky more interesting.
Cheers!
It has been awhile since I have posted a hot air balloon photo, but I was working on some this weekend:
ISO 640 50mm -0.33ev f/16 1/40
This was taken in the fall at the Forest Park Balloon Festival. Here is the original photo:
Looks pretty different eh? In Aperture I created two additional versions of the photo, I lowered the exposure on one, raised it on the other. Then I took my three photos into Photomatix and put them back together. I ended up liking one of the “painterly” settings best.
I also took out some stray ropes, boosted the color and sharpened the image.
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When I was at the Forest Park Balloon Festival I took a lot of shots of balloons being filled and getting off the ground. Here is one:
ISO 100 50mm f/2.8 1/400
Here is the original before I did any editing:
I wanted to brighten it up a bit to make the flames look a bit more dramatic. In the larger file size of this photo you can see the heat radiating a bit better than you can in this version.
Cheers!
I was lucky enough this weekend to be allowed on the field at the Forest Park Balloon Festival. I took a bunch of shots. Most of them are going to require some finishing up though. The sky was pretty bland for most of the day. I will be posting some pictures over time as I am working on them. Here is my first:
ISO 100 f/5.6 1/400 50mm
Here is the original shot:
These photos are going to give me plenty to practice with in Aperture. Your comments are appreciated. How would you have done the editing differently?
Cheers!
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