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Earth From The Air
Earth From The Air
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Challenge: Free Study 2007-07 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Nikon
Location: Balloon Flight over Melbourne Australia
Date: Jul 2, 2007
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jul 16, 2007

 Another image from my baloon ride...it's funny cause I wasn't going to give this image another thought. I was looking through my catalogue in Picasa when I thought I would kit the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button and the shot came to life!

I wish I had a bit more space on the bottom for the purpose of composition, but not much I could do with a super wide angle lens and a basket under me...


PROCESSING: I used levels, then cranked up the contrast which saturated the image. Smart sharpened, then resized and applied a couple of passes of nois reduction. Some dodging and burning and cloned out a couple of sensor dust spots. I am so glad this is in 720 pixels.

PREDICTION: I am so bad at predicting...umm...well, I am confident it will do OK. The saturation might hurt me with the scorers, but I think it is a feature of the image. I love the shapes as it looks almost like granite. High 6's...fingers crossed

POST: Well it seems the saturation did hurt me. I had another version with less saturation, but decided I liked the abstractness of the image. I should have cropped out the car park as well...you live and learn I guess

Statistics
Place: 153 out of 651
Avg (all users): 6.1154
Avg (commenters): 6.7143
Avg (participants): 6.1101
Avg (non-participants): 6.1429
Views since voting: 2275
Views during voting: 220
Votes: 130
Comments: 16
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 09/12/2007 05:38:08 PM
Wow! I'm getting vertigo looking at this photo. What a balloon ride that must have been! Spectacular. (Love those bright colors...heh!)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/07/2007 10:54:18 PM
Excellent colors and a wonderful natural design! Great view.
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 08/07/2007 07:15:43 PM
no fair playing with the paint cool
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 08/07/2007 06:49:45 PM
Aerial shots usually accompany an amazing perspective with poor compostion, colors, exposure, and lighting. This has all the technical aspects and the cool view. Excellent!
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 08/07/2007 10:22:05 AM
I would love to be where you are ... but if I took a photo, I hope I would have been more subtle about the p[ost processing.
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 08/06/2007 10:37:10 PM
wow, do you bring pennies so you can make wishes in the ponds you overfly?
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 08/06/2007 03:12:26 PM
Woah...very dynamic and vibrant! A most unusual POV and scene. Cool aerial!
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 08/05/2007 09:57:04 AM
Very interesting perspective, not too many of us get to see this. A little over exposed though, IMHO.
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 08/04/2007 09:06:53 PM
Great colr and an awesome point of view.
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 08/04/2007 12:55:23 PM
one of the most amazing pics i've seen - awesome
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 08/03/2007 02:17:53 PM
The colours look oversaturated but this is a great photo! So surreal.
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 08/02/2007 11:02:29 PM
Great abstract. The baloon makes it work.
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 08/01/2007 09:35:58 PM
I like the comp and the photo, but the colors look out of whack. 6.
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 08/01/2007 08:33:40 AM
Wow - amazing perspective. Seems overly saturated for my taste, but so very cool!
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 08/01/2007 06:59:34 AM
Beem me up and away!
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 08/01/2007 04:32:05 AM
looks really cool, I like the other balloon too, nice yellow spot with all the beautiful greens and blues. I think I would have cropped it without that parking space, so it looks even more abstract.
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