Blew up a balloon, released it and followed it with the camera. The 7D's 8fps came in handy for this.
Editing was Import to LR, crop, exposure -0.67, black clipping +18, exposure +0.34, contrast +25, Clarity +69, Vibrance +27, +23, -2, -21, Clarity -38, black clipping -8, -9, convert to grayscale, green gray level -64, aqua +46, red +5, orange +6, yellow -13, blue +44, purple -26, light tones +10, dark tones -2, shadow tones +28, dark tones +2, dark tones -6, crop, post-crop vignette -29, post-crop vignette -4, open is PSE6, resize, usm, sfw.
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Actually I like the balloon in BW, it's the the grass that popped it's thunder. The tones in the grass became to homogeneous, and in some areas muddy. If you had preserved the in focus texture, and background blur it would have had more of an impact...still like the balloon.
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