[Leica] Hot Air Balloons

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

Thanks, Douglas. Yes, the balloon basket silhouette was a lucky catch.


> On Dec 4, 2016, at 9:17 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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> 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
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> 
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Balloon+Festival/ <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Balloon+Festival/>
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>> C&C appreciated.
>> 
>> —howard
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