I must be turning into a maniac with DP Challenge. I told my 19 year old daughter about this challenge and mentioned that I wanted to see if I could find out when a balloon launch might be taking place this week. I also mentioned that it might be a lot of fun to actually take a balloon ride! Well, that was all it took to see her expression on her face. Two days later, we were booked on a balloon ride. The weather held and it turned out to be a great day and was a ton of fun. I got a lot of shots, not all good, but this one was the best one that seemed to fit the bill.
Not much for processing.
Lightroom adjustments:
decreased exposure a bit
cropped a tiny bit
loaded into PS CS4
levels
brightness
contrast
cloned out a couple odd things on the balloon
ran Noiseware Pro
USM
smart sharpen
contrast again
saved for the web
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