The ugly green (and other color) stuff barely visible on the right behind the truck is smoke or haze or whatever from another balloon nearby, I think. I processed this as a single image HDR and it showed up more in the merged version than the original where it is almost invisible. At -1, it is invisible. Had I not been processing within an hour of roll-over, I probably would have checked back and decided I could safely burn it out. Unfortunately, I didn't have or take the time to do so even though I felt the image would be much better with a clean black background.
[Aug. 20th, 2013 12:39:42 PM]
I looked again at this version and see that the front end of the truck is awful, too. Sorry. I do think I could have burned a bit more and maybe cropped in so it would not have been so noticeable.
Sitting at 5.8x half a day from roll-over - not at all unhappy with that given the flaws.
Quite happy with the finish.
Here are a crop of my entry with more burn than I think would have been allowed and my favorite capture from the evening which required expert editing.
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