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Challenge: Diagonal (Basic Editing)
Camera: Pentax *ist DS
Lens: Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Pentax
Location: Haga Town, Japan
Date: Nov 25, 2006
Aperture: f8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Sports, Travel
Date Uploaded: Nov 28, 2006

 Three contestants in the World Hot Air balloon Championship.

PP: cloned out a dust spot, curves, USM, a little levels, resize, USM again. I was going to clone out the power lines too, but wasn't sure if that was going too far in basic editing. Maybe nobody will notice...


Post: Ah, so lots of people noticed.

The black balloon is from Denmark, "Curves" is American, and I think the other one is from Germany (somewhere in Europe, at any rate).

Statistics
Place: 59 out of 345
Avg (all users): 5.9581
Avg (commenters): 6.0833
Avg (participants): 5.9022
Avg (non-participants): 6.0101
Views since voting: 757
Views during voting: 277
Votes: 191
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/05/2006 05:30:10 PM
Good capture. Great backdrop.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/04/2006 11:36:40 PM
Nice shot, but what happened to the bottom right hand corner?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/03/2006 04:09:31 PM
New Mexico? Watch out for the wires in the corner.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/01/2006 05:45:27 PM
good timing for this capture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/01/2006 05:36:20 AM
I wished you had cropped just a little tighter to get rid of the power lines in the bottom right. I also would have liked all three balloons exposed more, the one dark one is a little distracting and the top one lost details at the top. Overall though I like the shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/01/2006 04:01:41 AM
lovely capture, too bad about the air pollution and the couple of power lines in the corner
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2006 03:00:41 PM
Its diagonal sure. But very plain.
 11/29/2006 12:53:30 PM
Very nice composition, cool idea and well executed. Wish there there was a little background of clouds or some foreground - might make it more interesting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2006 11:45:21 AM
Nice composition. It is a pitty we cannot see the colours of the farthest baloon, but only its silhouete.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2006 11:13:38 AM
Very nice; would like to see more detail on lower left.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2006 07:40:15 AM
Plus: nice capture, colors
Minus: I don't feel the diagonal as much as with other captures, bottom balloon too dark, bottom right wires?
Score: 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2006 02:18:22 AM
Nice and simple!
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 11/29/2006 12:51:15 AM
difficult capture


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