The Story behind..."Trip"

Almost 1000 Views.
180 people call this a favourite.
Not bad.
I think this is enough as a reason to write something about it, especially because it is one of my personal Top 3 of my works.

At this day, it was in June or July, I absolutely wanted to do some shooting.
I hadnt got any real idea but I had to do just anything!
It looked like it were going to rain but this did not suffice to stay at home.
So I packed my sombrero and did go to a field next to my home by bike.

I set up my tripod and did some test shots to find the perfect camera setting.
This was very hard for me, especially because of the fact that I was a beginner and my camera was almost virgin.
The biggest problem was it to find the focus because I did this shooting alone by using the selftimer, what led me to stand behind the camera when it focussed.
I bootstrapped by setting a high aperture, so it wasnt necessary to set the focus perfectly.

Then the time had come to start shooting.
I prepared my outfit at the time when I found a little yellow balloon between some bush.
I imagined how this would look like on my image and I absolutely loved the thought.
Then the shooting began.
The rain forced me to stop many times and I had to protect my camera against it.
In the little breaks of the rain I ran onto the field to shoot.
In this rush I forgot to cast off my bag which can be seen on the image.
When I saw the result later I liked the bag on it because it gives a feeling as if this would be a long journey.
Because of the breaks and the repeating "starting seltimer, running onto the field, shooting, viewing" process, this shooting lasted almost 2 hours but for me the result justifies this effort.

After I was back home I did a HDR Imaging to this image but it did not convince me at all. So I saved a JPG of this on my desktop and did not pay any attention to it for month.
About a month ago I accidentially found this, remembered the shooting and absolutely adored it.
It needed some more postprocessing(I had to work on the JPG because I hadnt got the RAW Files anymore) but after this I was absolutely delighted.
The strong contrast of the sky and the field, the high contrast of the clouds and the way this balloons contrasts the golden field got me completely.

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