The Earth is not flat, we checked!
We were invited to go on a hot air balloon ride in San Martin, California, located south of the San Francisco Bay Area. A friend who could not join contacted me the day before, and offered me to go instead. What a pleasant surprise! We flew over suburban landscape at about 1000 feet above the ground, and landed in Gilroy in a field on the lower right behind a church. A friendly policeman came, asking if we are OK, indeed we were, and had a lot of fun!
I processed a balanced and an interior HDR photo separately from two RAW exposures, blended them for a composite image, taking one for the basket of the balloon, and one for the urban landscape. After that I carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/8.0, 12 mm, 1/250, 1/350 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Rokinon 12mm F2.8, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC4249_1_hdr1bal1int4d.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2024 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
The Earth is not flat, we checked!
We were invited to go on a hot air balloon ride in San Martin, California, located south of the San Francisco Bay Area. A friend who could not join contacted me the day before, and offered me to go instead. What a pleasant surprise! We flew over suburban landscape at about 1000 feet above the ground, and landed in Gilroy in a field on the lower right behind a church. A friendly policeman came, asking if we are OK, indeed we were, and had a lot of fun!
I processed a balanced and an interior HDR photo separately from two RAW exposures, blended them for a composite image, taking one for the basket of the balloon, and one for the urban landscape. After that I carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/8.0, 12 mm, 1/250, 1/350 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Rokinon 12mm F2.8, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC4249_1_hdr1bal1int4d.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2024 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography