POTM [06/07] Flying at dusk

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Bournemouth's tethered balloon at dusk. Taken with a Nikon D70 using the kit lens. Sharpened and saturated in Adobe Lightroom, and then shrunk quite a bit, obviously!

1/320 Sec at f3.8
27mm Focal Length

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Nice shot, you could try cropping tighter around the balloon, enriching the orange of the flame and maybe darkening (and increasing the contrast of) the sky - to give me a moodier look?

 

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Kept the crop the same though.

 

That is much better, but there is a lot of empty concrete at the bottom of the picture, and removing some of the tree on the left might 'frame' the balloon a little better.

 

There's too much clutter in the shot for me.
It would have been cool if you could have got closer and taken a shot from below the baloon.

 

The white sign in the trees is very distracting.

 

Second that. I would also have bracketed the shot or increased the exposure.

 

I'll admit that this was designed to be more of a plain shot of the town for my Gran than anything particularly arty, hence why there is a lot of stuff in it that isn't relevant to the main point of focus.

I deliberately underexposed to make it look more like the time of day it actually was when I took the photo. Using the normal exposure settings just made it look like noon, which ruined the mood I was trying to capture.

I left the paths in at the bottom because I liked the texture of the rain on the concrete, and felt it added to the moody evening theme. I thought the two trees framed the pic quite well too. Obviously there was nothing I could do about the sign without moving to a totally different location, and taking a more close up shot would have lost too much of the surroundings that I wanted to capture.

 

Just noticed that this wasn't on the voting site so I added it.

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