City - San Diego State - CA Country - United States
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The Hot Air Balloon is real, the background has been digitally worked with Digital Image Pro and the GFlare filter in the GIMP. The balloon was floating up into the sun and the sky ended up really hot.
This is the new Balloon (tethered) ride at the San Diego Wild animal Park. 15 bucks (12 for members) will get you 15 minute ride up to 400 feet above the WAP. So cool wide angle ops and straigt down shots into the Lion Camp there.
Balloon was shot from the ground with the Canon 70-200mm 4L @ 70mm ISO-100, 1/640sec f/4
My first thought was that it was a jellyfish. I like what you've done to (what used to be) the sky. Are there no passangers on this trip? I don't see any in the gondola.