Moonshot & Snowy Seacoast Sunset..

NHBubba

..say that three times fast!

Hot off the presses.. finished posting these just last night. I'm pretty happy w/ this first one. Comments and critique sought..

Canon DRebel - 10-22 @ 10mm - ISO 100 (multi-shot bracketed & composited)


Canon DRebel - 70-200/4 @ 200mm + 2x TC - ISO 100 - 1/200 sec @ f/8 (heavily cropped)


Canon DRebel - 70-200/4 @ 200mm - ISO 100 - 1/100 sec @ f/8 (heavily cropped)

I aquired the Canon EFS 10-22mm a few weeks ago. I'm frickin' loving this lens!

ginger_55

I love the first one!

Nice moon, too.

ginger

how did you get the "near" light on the first shot?

NHBubba

Thank you!

You mean the light foreground? I basically used a derivitive of the Blended Exposure technique discussed in this tutorial over at Luminous Landsacpes. The difference is I used a lightly tweaked gradient for my layer mask instead of the light layer. The sky looked like bum using the light layer as the mask..

I actually posted JPEGs of some of the layer workup to demonstrate for a friend on another site..

The overexposed foreground
My super-duper saturated sky
The mask

I was reading up (here on DGrin) about strong (~10 stop) ND filters. One thread I tripped over touched on ND gradients. I almost bought a set too (and then filed for bankruptcy!). I think this technique works just as well though.

annnna8888

The first pic is gorgeous. Love the atmosphere. You did a very good job at compositing two pics there.

NHBubba

Alright.. I wasn't happy w/ it.. I'm still not sure I am.. but here's a couple trys to 'fix' it:

* A *

Original Edit

* B *

Lightened the foreground a touch.. backed off on the fade to the border a bit

* C *

The same.. plus a little less agressive sky.

Dunno which edit I like best. There isn't a helluva lot of difference.. but still.

Whadayah think?

illuminati919

I really like the first shot just as it is, you did a nice job, beautiful colors as well.

What type of lens were you using ?

NHBubba

Thanks!

The lens is my latest aquisition: the Canon EF 10-22. Shot at f/8. The lens is fantastic.. I'm already really enjoying it.

eye-max

I think I perfer the middle one, (B). To my eye, (monitor at work) B's skies look more natural. I like the viewpoint of this image, it give a great sense of depth. Good eye!!

NHBubba

Mmm.. I think I agree. Thanks..

My GF thought the image was too dark, hence the lightening of the sky in C.. but I'm not sure I agree w/ her. I think B is prolly my favorite too.

To think.. ~67 shots of the same sunset and I managed to come up w/ one 'keeper'! ... :uhoh

cwphotos

I love the pics...all of them. It still amazes me how detailed a camera can snap a shot of the moon.

NHBubba

Yeah.. I think I finally may be caching on to this moon photography stuff.

Unfortunately I don't think I have the glass to really do this right. I had to crop the daylights out of the shots to get what you see. I don't expect to get very good prints out of them.. Still, not bad for a couple snaps as I was packing up for the evening.

System

I trust that GF is your girlfriend and not me--

love night shots and yours are really nice--

just got a 70-200--are you happy with the TC?--looks like it works pretty good--

thanks for sharing--

george

NHBubba

gefillmore wrote:

I trust that GF is your girlfriend and not me--

Yes, sorry.. GF is my shorthand for girlfriend.

gefillmore wrote:

love night shots and yours are really nice--

Thank you!

gefillmore wrote:

just got a 70-200--are you happy with the TC?--looks like it works pretty good--

My TC is a cheapie Quantaray 2x. (Ritz store brand, supposedly Sigma.. or Tamron.) I got it for ~$80.. so for the price, yeah, I'm happy w/ it. Focusing gets ify at times (even w/ the f/4) and I'm sure there's an impact on the quality.. but hey, the price was right.

System

thanks for the response-