[Leica] Hot Air Balloons

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Flare 2 and IR Flare 2 - because of the basket hanging in the air against 
the illuminated balloon - for me.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard L Ritter Jr" <hlritter at twc.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2016 9:19 PM
Subject: [Leica] Hot Air Balloons


> Every year my little town here outside Raleigh hosts a hot-air balloon 
> festival. We went to the evening part of one day?s festivities to see the 
> evening ascent and the flaring event, where the pilots of balloons on the 
> ground flash their burners to light up the envelopes in a nice light show. 
> It occurred to me that these flashes should be rich in infrared, so I took 
> the M8 as well as the M240.
>
> One thing I discovered is that IR images made without sunlight are not 
> very interesting unless there?s a strong IR source in the frame.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Balloon+Festival/ 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Balloon+Festival/>
>
> C&C appreciated.
>
> ?howard
>
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