Last of the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta posts (for now anyway)
Feb 2, 2014 09:20:30 #
Feb 2, 2014 09:25:30 #
Feb 2, 2014 09:28:38 #
Feb 3, 2014 06:43:38 #
Real color or not, I love the intensity of ViVid saturation and luminosity.
Feb 3, 2014 07:31:50 #
dpullum wrote:
Real color or not, I love the intensity of ViVid saturation and luminosity.
Thank You
The colors of the balloons are pretty close to real. I may have brightened things up a bit but these were early morning shots with lots of bright NM sun. The exception is the American Flag where I needed to make the whites bright. Maybe I overdid it but I remember being stunned by the way most of these looked raw, straight out of the camera. There's a reason why the ABQ Balloon Fiesta is one of the most photographed events in the world.
Where I took a lot of liberty is in the skies. In several of the images I had to replace the sky completely since many of these were backlit and I did not have a polarizing filter.
Feb 3, 2014 09:30:36 #
dpullum wrote:
Real color or not, I love the intensity of ViVid saturation and luminosity.
OK...I take it back. I just looked at the history on some of these images and in almost every case I gave "clarity" and "vibrance" a significant boost.
Guess I did more work on these than I remembered.
Feb 3, 2014 22:07:29 #
Psergel wrote:
Last one. Sorry for the posting frenzy
Nice shots. :thumbup: :thumbup:
Feb 3, 2014 22:23:07 #
datsmar
Loc: minnesota
Psergel wrote:
Last one. Sorry for the posting frenzy
nice photo's very colorful
dave
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