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A local city had a nighttime balloon festival this evening, at a city park featuring a massive lake. Took the family along for an outing, and since we ended up having to park on the far side of the park/lake anyway, I took the opportunity to take some pictures.
I would appreciate constructive criticism. I shot raw+jpeg, but all photos here are scaled or manipulated from the jpegs.
On arrival, it was not yet dark:
43mm f/8, 1 second, ISO 400. Minor crop and then scale to 3000x2000, no other manipulation.
After it got dark, composite of the balloons that I could get firing (one did not fire during this time):
50mm f/8, 1 second, ISO 400. Composite of three images, first and third balloons brightened in GIMP.
50mm f/1.8, 1/5o second, ISO 1600. Slightly cropped, scaled, and brightened in GIMP.
168mm f/8, 1 second, ISO 400. Significant crop from a much larger image, then scaled, no other manipulation.
Most of the shooting was from across the lake, the third image was taken from much closer. It was surprisingly difficult to get good photos, but the balloonists didn't fire their gas burners for terribly long so I missed a whole lot of shots simply not being fast enough on the shutter.
I also can confirm that my 10-22mm lens with a nonfunctioning auto/manual switch is ANNOYING. I tried to use it close to the festivities but since it wouldn't manually focus it was basically unusable in the dark, because I couldn't easily pre-focus on any particular balloon before the gas jets were fired, and keep that focus easily.
Anyway, other than the malfunctioning lens I had a lot of fun. I only heard about the event about five minutes before we packed the car and headed up, so it was very spur of the moment. Didn't stay too long, had to get the kiddo home for bedtime.
I would appreciate constructive criticism. I shot raw+jpeg, but all photos here are scaled or manipulated from the jpegs.
On arrival, it was not yet dark:
43mm f/8, 1 second, ISO 400. Minor crop and then scale to 3000x2000, no other manipulation.
After it got dark, composite of the balloons that I could get firing (one did not fire during this time):
50mm f/1.8, 1/5o second, ISO 1600. Slightly cropped, scaled, and brightened in GIMP.
168mm f/8, 1 second, ISO 400. Significant crop from a much larger image, then scaled, no other manipulation.
Most of the shooting was from across the lake, the third image was taken from much closer. It was surprisingly difficult to get good photos, but the balloonists didn't fire their gas burners for terribly long so I missed a whole lot of shots simply not being fast enough on the shutter.
I also can confirm that my 10-22mm lens with a nonfunctioning auto/manual switch is ANNOYING. I tried to use it close to the festivities but since it wouldn't manually focus it was basically unusable in the dark, because I couldn't easily pre-focus on any particular balloon before the gas jets were fired, and keep that focus easily.
Anyway, other than the malfunctioning lens I had a lot of fun. I only heard about the event about five minutes before we packed the car and headed up, so it was very spur of the moment. Didn't stay too long, had to get the kiddo home for bedtime.