2011.11.20: "Balloon" Discussion
Didn't see one started yet. I also played with the effects a bit more and ended up with something more distorted from reality, but I liked how the balloon looked metallic and super saturated with color.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vertatle/6373255377/" title="balloon 1 by vertatle, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6099/6373255377_1849e6e780.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="balloon 1"></a>
CB: How fun. I like how you played with the crop to give the picture a very vertical quality - especially because the balloons are anchored to the ground. Makes me feel like they WANT to fly. I may have rotated the pic just a bit so the ground is level.
Snark: I really love the reflection of the little figure, and I ESPECIALLY love (dont know if this was your intention) the lovely way the color of the background balloons mimic a sort of real world for your character: light blue sky, dark blue water, brown ground, yellow sun. I may have tried to play with the yellow of the far background balloon to see if I could get it to match better the yellow balloons in the figure. The background balloon is a bit gray/green, and the little yellow balloons seem to be bright and warm. Thats completely a personal thing, I think, but it just caught my eye.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vertatle/6373255377/" title="balloon 1 by vertatle, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6099/6373255377_1849e6e780.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="balloon 1"></a>
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CB: How fun. I like how you played with the crop to give the picture a very vertical quality - especially because the balloons are anchored to the ground. Makes me feel like they WANT to fly. I may have rotated the pic just a bit so the ground is level.
Snark: I really love the reflection of the little figure, and I ESPECIALLY love (dont know if this was your intention) the lovely way the color of the background balloons mimic a sort of real world for your character: light blue sky, dark blue water, brown ground, yellow sun. I may have tried to play with the yellow of the far background balloon to see if I could get it to match better the yellow balloons in the figure. The background balloon is a bit gray/green, and the little yellow balloons seem to be bright and warm. Thats completely a personal thing, I think, but it just caught my eye.
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CB: They look so lonely. I traveled all the way down the picture just waiting to see something, and then they were all the way down there at the bottom. Very tricksy. Like Maru, I think I would have straightened as well, but good picture, nice story.
(I was totally going for the island/sea/sky/sun thing. I didn't think I pulled it off at all, so thanks for noticing.