Another image from my baloon ride...it's funny cause I wasn't going to give this image another thought. I was looking through my catalogue in Picasa when I thought I would kit the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button and the shot came to life!
I wish I had a bit more space on the bottom for the purpose of composition, but not much I could do with a super wide angle lens and a basket under me...
PROCESSING: I used levels, then cranked up the contrast which saturated the image. Smart sharpened, then resized and applied a couple of passes of nois reduction. Some dodging and burning and cloned out a couple of sensor dust spots. I am so glad this is in 720 pixels.
PREDICTION: I am so bad at predicting...umm...well, I am confident it will do OK. The saturation might hurt me with the scorers, but I think it is a feature of the image. I love the shapes as it looks almost like granite. High 6's...fingers crossed
POST: Well it seems the saturation did hurt me. I had another version with less saturation, but decided I liked the abstractness of the image. I should have cropped out the car park as well...you live and learn I guess
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Aerial shots usually accompany an amazing perspective with poor compostion, colors, exposure, and lighting. This has all the technical aspects and the cool view. Excellent!
looks really cool, I like the other balloon too, nice yellow spot with all the beautiful greens and blues. I think I would have cropped it without that parking space, so it looks even more abstract.
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