Yellow Moonrise, 1st April 2010

[StephenM]

Hi all,

Here is an image of last night's Moon rising. It's a combination of 2 different exposures (taken with a tripod-mounted dSLR and 300mm lens), put together in PS7. I tried to bring out both the detail in the lunar disk, and the Moonlight reflecting off the foreground clouds.

I think I partially suceeded, but I'm not entirely happy with the result. What do you think?

Cheers,
Stephen

[michaellxv]

Looks pretty close to what I am looking at now. I'd say you did a good job of it. :thumbsup:

[Dennis]

That’s a darned good effort Steve – you’ve managed to control the light bleeding around the lunar disc very well, quite an achievement given how long the exposure must have been to record the clouds.

Cheers

Dennis

[StephenM]

Thanks Michael. Glad you like it.



Thanks Dennis. I know you've done lots of this sort of thing, so your feedback is appreciated. I played around a lot with curves adjustment in both the background and forground (lunar disk) to try and minimise the light bleeding. I would have liked to enhance the contrast a bit more in the lunar disk, but this creates a dark edge near the terminator which makes the image look very artificial.

Cheers,
Stephen

[anthony.tony]

nice shot mate.

[StephenM]

Thanks Tony.

Cheers,
Stephen

[sweeper]

Hi Stephen,

nice exposure.
You can try to blue the moon disk a bit on the edges. Maybe a 2px gaussian blur.
This will cause a more realistic effect. As you did the moon looks to be in front of the image, not to be part of it.

[iceman]

Nice work Stephen. I agree with Robert, too. It looks like it's pasted on a bit rather than part of the scene, but you've got a great start there!