Topic: Balloon Project

[Rocket Man]

So I've been working for a little bit on this little Balloon experiment. It feels unfinished for me but I can't pick out the small details. I need someone with fresh eyes to tell me what looks wrong. I this is the first project I've been able to really integrate photoshop into my photography workflow.

[Caffiene]

Im not much on object composition... I leave that to the photographers. But in terms of colour I think it could use a bit of a bump up for the foreground.

At the moment what you have is a grey foreground, with a bright background at the bottom behind the foreground, then a dark background at the top. The eye is drawn a bit to the bright sunny part of the background and the balloons look dark by comparison. If you want them to look like typical bright balloons then you want to minimise the effect of the bright background by darkening the background, brightening the foreground, or both.

And for the spray of droplets in the air above the balloons, Id either hit them with a bit of contrast or a bit of blur to make them stand out or blend in (depending on which you want). At the moment theyre kind of in between... theyre visible but not very distinct.

[Rocket Man]

Im not much on object composition... I leave that to the photographers. But in terms of colour I think it could use a bit of a bump up for the foreground.

At the moment what you have is a grey foreground, with a bright background at the bottom behind the foreground, then a dark background at the top. The eye is drawn a bit to the bright sunny part of the background and the balloons look dark by comparison. If you want them to look like typical bright balloons then you want to minimise the effect of the bright background by darkening the background, brightening the foreground, or both.

And for the spray of droplets in the air above the balloons, Id either hit them with a bit of contrast or a bit of blur to make them stand out or blend in (depending on which you want). At the moment theyre kind of in between... theyre visible but not very distinct.

I agree with most of what you're saying and I think that most of it was in the back of my mind but I'd been ignoring it because some of the stuff is slightly more difficult. I did try some of it out though and am fairly happy with the impovements. I also tried cropping out most of the dark sky. What do you think?





EDIT: I did another little edit to lighten up the dark clouds in the sky. I'll upload it later if anyone wants to see the change.