Callaway Gardens

[guzziknight]

I was there for their hot air balloon festival. Photographed the glow by the lake tonight.

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[ksbryan0]

Beautiful shots, Yaniv. Processing looks good, but all three seem to be listing to the right a bit. As much as I like the reflections in the 2nd image, I think I like the 3rd best because the activity around the balloons comes alive.

[EOSThree]

Love the blue period. Nice stuff. Like Bryan said watch your horizon. It's OK to shoot it crooked, a lot of us would admit it's happened a time or 2 or 100...easy to fix in post...

[LeeIs]

oh wow, the 2nd one is especially beautiful. great capture. beautiful blue skies. sharp image. you nailed it.

[Greg McCary]

I can see what you were trying to do on the first one, get the moon in the shot. A trick I use is to take a nice zoomed in picture of the moon and then PS it into the shot. That way you have a perfectly exposed moon the size you want it and where you want it. I actually have a couple of moon shots saved on my hard drive just for the purpose. You can even put the moon in light cloud cover and drop the opacity and get a very moody feel.
I think on the first one you are just to far away and losing the viewers eye roaming around with to much dead space. The second two are splendid. I love the colors and exposure.

[guzziknight]

I see what you're all saying about the horizon. It was late when I processed these, probably should have waited until I was more awake, lol.

Greg, unfortunately, I currently don't have a long enough lens to get a good moon shot, so I had to make do with what I do have. I like the shot, but I can see your point as well.

Thanks, guys.