Adirondack Balloon Festival
 

I went to a hot air balloon festival last night at Glens Falls. There were around 90 balloons that were supposed to fly last night. These are some of the pictures I got.

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David, some very colorful photos. These were great. Thanks for sharing. :cool:

cool points go to the balloon with the sea creatures.

I bet the other 'plain balloons' must've felt pretty lame...

thanks!

Yes, the colors are spectacular.
Interesting time of day (looks to be dusk or dawn)...the lighting adds spice.

Neat stuff. That little bug ballon in the middle of yoru group: that would be mine if I ever owned one. Haha! Nice time of day lighting as well. Thanks for posting!

This was about 5:30PM. The balloon launches happen early in the day or late afternoon to early evening. I think this has to do with those times being less windy than mid-day.

The blue-ness of the sky makes for a perfect backdrop. Did you use a filter to bring those colours out? Fantastic job!

I used a polarizer for most of the pictures. Depending on where I was facing, it brought out the deep blue sky. I had some that the polarizer turned to a rather ugly purple-gray color. I used the 18-55mm kit lens that I bought with my Digital Rebel for most of the pictures. I had my 70-200mm lens, but I was too close to get shots of more than one balloon with it. One thing I found out is that a polarizer doesn't always work well with a wide angle shot. I ended up with some wide angle shots where I had a color gradient to the sky with one end light blue and the other dark blue.