Early dusk in Kingman, AZ

kdog

Not bad for a quick grab out my back door, huh?



No PS, other than levels adjustment and a tiny bit of sharpening. And yes, I should probably clone out that object in the lower right hand corner.

Thanks for looking.
-joel

USAIR

No not bad.....very cool
I never can nail that darn moon

Shay used to have a moon exposure caculator thing wonder if it's still there

Good job
Fred

kdog

Thank you, Fred.

Moon exposures are easy. Shoot raw so you can get a couple stops of correction if you blow it. Set your camera on spot metering (partial metering on the 20D, the one with the "()" symbol). Then use -1 exposure comp. I get great results that way.



Regards,
-joel

Phyxius

USAIR wrote:

Shay used to have a moon exposure caculator thing wonder if it's still there

Yup! It's HERE

kdog

Phyxius wrote:

Yup! It's HERE

So you hijack my thread and don't even comment on the picture? :bluduh

Phyxius

kdog wrote:

So you hijack my thread and don't even comment on the picture? :bluduh

OOPS, I thought the person who asked for the link was the original poster

Of course I could have said that the moon calendar WAS my comment...but it's not...SO...

Yes, you should clone out the little box thing in the bottom right corner and you should clone me in! I'd LOVE to see that sight out my window in the morning Color me jealous!

I like the purple dusk of the mountains, but I think the moon is over exposed. Was this RAW? I don't REALLY have a RAW editing program so I don't know the wonders of it, but apparently you could work magic and keep the foreground bright while toning down exposure on the moon. Or you could have shot two pictures, one metered for the moon and one for the foreground.

But, as a quick grab in the AM it's quite nice

Sorry again for the hijack. poke

kdog

It was actually PM, ie, dusk, but thanks for the comment. You are hereby redeemed.

I pretty much shoot everthing raw these days, so I could do a selective exposure blending in PS. However, that's what the scene really looked like, at least to my eye. The CS2 raw converter has an option to show you any blowouts, and the moon is not blown out, it's just bright. You're not going to see crater detail at that focal length anyway. What I liked about the shot was the pure whiteness of the moon against alpen glow of the mountain. As I say, that's what it really looked like.

What I'm kicking myself about is that I missed the actual moonrise which probably occured a few minutes earlier. That might have been a much better shot, but sadly I'll never know. The moon rise is occuring well after dusk now. :cry

Cheers,
-joel

DRT-Maverick

Sometimes Arizona Reminds me of Nevada, it's comforting on occasion, because it's home. Deserts.

Richard

kdog wrote:

Not bad for a quick grab out my back door, huh?

Very nice light. Not bad at all, Joel.

Phyxius

kdog wrote:

However, that's what the scene really looked like, at least to my eye. The CS2 raw converter has an option to show you any blowouts, and the moon is not blown out, it's just bright.

I'm looking at this on a different monitor now and I agree 100% that the moon is NOT overexposed.

Stupid LCD screens...

kdog

DRT-Maverick wrote:

Sometimes Arizona Reminds me of Nevada, it's comforting on occasion, because it's home. Deserts.

Thanks, Maverick. Kingman is actually very close to Nevada and they're very similar in geography. We just moved out to the southwest here, and I really love it.

Regards,
-joel

ian408

Sweetness!

I came through 15/Mesquite, NV this summer in a real blow. Man that
was windy :eek1