Plano Balloon Festival - my take

[snidow]

Okay, I gotta share three of mine, still reviewing all of them but I hope you enjoy these.

[Joe_Lorenzini]

#1 and #3 are gorgeous! #3 looks like you might have used a flash on it, did you?

I love the rich, saturated colors. Sweet shots!

_/oe

[snidow]

Originally Posted by Joe_Lorenzini

#1 and #3 are gorgeous! #3 looks like you might have used a flash on it, did you?

I love the rich, saturated colors. Sweet shots!

_/oe

Thanks Joe, no flash was used on these I think the sun was coming through the top on balloon on #1 which made some of panels look lighted. Number one is straight out of the camera just resized, the other two I lighted just a bit and add a bit of contrast.

[engstrom]

Nice pictures Laurie. How early did you have to get out there in order to get right up against the field and not have to shoot through a crowd of people?

[snidow]

Originally Posted by engstrom

Nice pictures Laurie. How early did you have to get out there in order to get right up against the field and not have to shoot through a crowd of people?

Thanks John, these were evening photos so I arrived there just before 5:00pm because the sky divers were supposed do their thing then, but because it was windy, things were delayed a bit. There was a pretty good crowd already but not too many people were againist the fencing so I just picked a place and waited for them to start setting up. In the morning I got there a little later then planned and missed the dawn patrol. The evening proved better because the sky was good and blue and nice warm lighting.