Worcester Balloon Festival in three styles

Last weekend was the Worcester Balloon Festival.  I took a wander down to the site to see what was happening.  I had my Huawei Mate phone camera and my Olympus E-M10 Mk3 with me.  I decided to try and show different treatments of subjects at the Festival.

There was a very large inflatable slide there.  I went in the early evening and the sun was getting quite low on the horizon.  It was picking out the structure of the slide with a golden colour, and that gave a lovely contrast against the blue sky.  It has to look of a modern office building about it to my mind.

Later on there was a “Night Glow”, where tethered balloons fire their burners in time with music.  I took lots of shots so I could be sure of getting one with all the burners lit.  Most of the balloons are illuminated from the inside as a result.  The Aston Martin balloon, being of dark fabric, isn’t lit as much, but you can’t have everything.

At the end of the show I used my Huawei in “Silky Water” mode to get some images of the funfair.  I moved the camera about diagonally, keeping it still for a while each time, to produce a sort of “X-shape” in the composition.  You can see the big wheel repeated in the, mostly abstract, image.

It’s always worth trying different approaches.