GENorkus wrote:
Something you might consider is to be creative and use a fisheye.
Up close, balloons are relitively easy to use the distorted appearance of fish eye or non-rectilinear (sp?) wide angle lenses on. If you have time, try it! It just might be the look you like.
The Irix 15 that I mentioned using earlier in this post, is rectileaner so I need to switch lenses for that effect.