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Challenge: Balloon III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D3100
Location: Victoria Park, Bath, England
Date: Aug 24, 2014
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Aug 25, 2014

Took this in the early morning natural light. Made a point of trying to catch the flame. Tried to frame it with trees but wonder if it mght have looked better if isolated in the sky? (I hadd such shots). Beginner with telephoto so grateful for any advice on obvious failings welcome! Also a beginner at processing so it's all very basic: cropped, sharpened and saturated. Never know when to stop on the latter!

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Place: 22 out of 42
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01/03/2016 07:05:14 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club.

First thoughts - this definitely met the challenge. Hot air balloons always make for a good subject imho, and nice work catching the flame. That flame definitely added a bit of something special. The colors seem realistic, and not overly saturated. Nothing wrong with the light, although nothing particularly special about it either. (Darn the morning not having been a nice pink sky morning huh?)

For me, I suspect I might have enjoyed the shot either with more of the scene or isolated in the sky. The bit of trees just did not add much to the overall feeling about the image. Had the green coordinated with a color in the balloon, I might have felt differently but as it stands the green of the trees just seemed to pull my attention away a bit from the balloon and cluttered up the scene a bit without giving me feeling for what the surrounding area was like.

All in all I feel like this was a solid entry for the challenge, just maybe not as compositionally as strong as some of the higher scoring images in the challenge.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/02/2014 11:00:20 PM
Good catch.c
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09/01/2014 10:34:00 PM
What's not to like about this image? Now if you had only been on board and started photographing the view from there. Still, good marks from me.
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08/30/2014 02:48:06 AM
very nice shot good with the pilot in the frame
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