Lunar Descent - Ohio River Valley

ThirdDayImaging

Two images of the descent of a super-moon. Observing a rare super moon's descent into the mist over the Ohio River Valley. As seen from the overlook in Leavenworth, Indiana. It was a breathtaking surreal scene at 4:45 am this morning.

[Note: A "super-moon" occurs when the moon's closest trajectory to earth coincides with a full moon.]

#1. 10 second exp. at f8 - ISO 160



#2. 15 second exp. at f16 - ISO 160



Both images were taken with the 25mm f1.4 Lumix/Leica Summilux on the Lumix G5 - tripod of course. All manual, all the time - in RAW mode. My typical workflow: Quick overview in Irfanview/discard the junk/import to LR where the lion's share of pp is done/export to Color Efex for fine tweaking/LR for any final adjustments/export jpegs to unlisted gallery on website for watermarking - spread em around!

Stumblebum

Only way to improve #1 would be to photoshop a mermaid or something as I can't think of any.....;o)

Another improvement would be to reduce the signature and place it in bottom corner.....otherwise its like spitting in your own food so no one else would eat it.

ritewinger

Yeah, these look good, but the watermark just wipes them out. Post a reduced jpeg and don't worry about theft.

kdog

These would be killer shots if the moon wasn't so blown out. The watermark is a major detriment as previously stated.