Thursday, September 2, 2010

Dawn

At the hot air balloon liftoff site this past weekend there was a wonderful sky. I only wished at the time that they were already up and flying.

Mouse over to see the out of camera original. (Tutorial at right.)



Shot with Pentax K-7 at 18mm, edited in Photoshop.

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15 comments:

Mommy2Four said...

I love the sky in your edit! Beautiful!

Susan said...

Breathtaking edit! I just love it!

Unknown said...

great edit, I love the color of the sky

Sylvia K said...

Hey, I love the 'mouse over'! How cool is that! And what a terrific capture, Perry! Love those beautiful skies and I do love balloons, I take a ride every opportunity I get! Hope you have a great weekend!

Sylvia

EG CameraGirl said...

Some days it's truly worth getting up EARLY and this was one of them. :)

Mary Howell Cromer said...

Oh that is a great sky, with, or without baloons, wonderful. Have a great weekend~ Mary

tinyskillet said...

That's a fantastic sky for it. I'll bet they were happy to go ballooning that day!

eden said...

This is beautiful. Love it.

Verna Luga said...

Very pretty seems like someone great is coming from that corner ... great shot..

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Unknown said...

this is one of the tricks i've learned from visiting your site, for that i thank you and for all the inquiries that you have answered on my baby journey in photography. im glad that me and my wife have met you in this wonderful land of photo blogging.

yes, we're off to hospital now, pls pray for her, she'll stay there for 5 day and around 3 months at home to fully recover (that part -long 3 months- you have to pray for me. lol)

Regards,
Dave here

What Karen Sees said...

Dramatic sky and beautiful light. Very well captured!

Firefly the Travel Guy said...

Beautiful sky indeed. Looks like an ideal day for hot air ballooning

Arija said...

Nicely enhanced sky.

Jamie H said...

Wow what a difference your edit makes! I love it!

syel said...

love the vignette and the strong colours! and the "mouse over" is cool!