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Forum: Photographic Technique
03-24-2013, 02:34 PM
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The weather doesn't always cooperate but you got some nice shots anyway. I particularly like the blurred people in the your first image.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-11-2013, 10:49 PM
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If you've never been to a balloon festival, you have got to be on the field to see a Glow Show and the mass of balloons taking off. Having said that, away from the field will give you some shots that are different from the thousands of others that are being taken.
If you do get away from the field, try to get some elevation, on a hillside or a highrise building. Come back and show off some of your shots after the festival.
Oh, one more tip....if you see a balloon descending towards you, move out of the way. These thing can't be steered very well and that "lighter than air" balloon actually weighs several hundred kilos.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-10-2013, 07:40 PM
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A few more stitched panoramas. For some reason they weren't appearing in my earlier post.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-10-2013, 04:11 PM
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First is dress warm! It will be colder than you think. Dress in layers. As the sun comes up it will warm up quickly and you can remove layers. If the Canberra event is like other ballooning events you can expect three different lighting conditions. Some people sneer at "chimping", checking the shot you've just taken. I call it "I got the shot and you didn't". Check you shots often. Usually the show will begin with a Glow Show. The field will be dark and several balloons will fire their burners to illuminate the balloon, often synchronized to music.
Glow Show
Use a tripod. Your autofocus will be unreliable and autoexposure won't work. If there is no breeze you can make fairly long exposures. After the Glow Show you may have a Dawn Patrol. (I just don't know Australian flight rules so I'm not sure.) Here, specially lit balloons will take to the skies as the Sun is rising.
The lighting will be changing so check your shots often. Use a tripod. The balloons will be moving. Slowly. But they will be moving and a two or three second exposure will blur them. Try to not photograph from the west. You'll be shooting directly into the rising Sun. Once the Sun rises you can put the tripod away and use autofocus and autoexposure. You might want to slightly underexpose to saturate the colors.
You could also use your normal lens and create stitched panoramas.
Dress warm. Get there early. Use a tripod. Fast shutter speeds.
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