Full Moon over Connemara

edunon

Using the car's roof as tripod
I shot two photos, one of them spot metering at the moon. Mixed in Photoshop.

C&C welcome

CoolBoardr

Nice one - how long was the exposure for?

edunon

For the actual photo:
ISO 400, f4, 1/10, focal at 140mm

For the moon:
ISO 200, f4, 1/80, focal at 140mm

Using a Canon 300D and a 70-200mm 2.8 Lens.

andy1249

Love that shot , its got plenty of atmosphere about it , Well done .

PaulieC

It is a lovely pic but (and I know how stupid this sounds) it would be a lot better IMO if the house was a traditional cottage rather than a modern looking bungalow. That would give it a more authentic Connemara look.

Picky, I know...:o

run_Forrest_run

nice shot. why didn't you have a go at multiple exposures (if your camera has the feature)? I think it's a shame when people use photoshop to enhance their pics..IMO all the work should be done by the camera and the photographer,not some piece of software.

rabbitinlights

Where was the shot taken? Its not beside TG4 by any chance is it?

Valentia

IMO all the work should be done by the camera and the photographer,not some piece of software.

I don't think you fully understand the photographic process when you make a statement like that When you take a photograph with negative film you are left with a negative that needs to be printed. There is a lot of information on the negative that will not be seen on a straight print because the dynamic range of a negative is greater than photographic paper. Lets take this picture as an example and lets pretend it was taken with negative film. It's possible that the negative will contain detail of the moon and detail of the land. If you develop that negative so that the land is properly exposed then the moon will be burnt out and show up as a white circle. On the other hand if you develop the negative and hold back the exposure of the moon on the paper then you will get a better balanced picture.

This is the way photographs have been developed from day one. You are basically getting the most from the negative that you created and compensating for the limitations of the photographic paper.

Good PS work does exactly the same.

BTW Love the pic edunon.

edunon

Exactly Valentia, this shot could be perfectly done on film. In the dark room once you start seeing detail on the moon just cover it with a piece of light cardboard of the same size/shape than the moon and wait to see the detail you want on the rest of the photo.
Some people think that the fact of using photoshop is not real photography, and it's actually our digital darkroom. I agree that can be use for much more, but this is not the case.

unklerosco

Well i think its a bloody great pic... really atmospheric n cold..

edunon

Thank you for the comments.
Here you can see the two photos used to make the one above. As said, nothing that could't be done in a darkroom with film