By the light of the silvery moon...

Jerry Curtis

Caught this shot last night just after sunset. Comments and/or constructive criticizm welcome as always.

ginger_55

I like that shot alot. The moon looks more like the moon than the watermelon, or the hyper black and white shots we moon people have been shooting. I also like how you framed it.

It will come UP out of our ocean tonight, earlier than yours did last night. Unfortunately our sky looks very cloudy, and getting darker, at this point.

I do really like your moon shot.

ginger

Angelo

very nice Jerry. Please tell us how you shot it?

Jerry Curtis

Thanks Ginger and Angelo

Angelo wrote:

very nice Jerry. Please tell us how you shot it?

Thank you very much for the compliments.

The shot was taken with my Sony V1 with the 1.7X tele conversion lens. The time was just after sunset, while there was still lots of color in the sky. I used a tripod with remote release. The camera was in manual mode - settings: Daylight WB, ISO100, 1/100s, f/5.6.

I did some post processing in PSP9: clarify, white/black point setting, noise removal with the moon excluded to preserve sharpness and detail, and some USM.

My Pbase gallery is here if you care to look:
http://www.pbase.com/icicle50

MuskyDude

For a very short instance, when I first glanced at this pic I thought maybe they were wolves howling at the moon. I really like this shot Jerry, to my eyes anyway there isn't much to really improve on. Home run!


AJ

USAIR

Jerry
Very nice shot

Thanks
Fred

bfjr

Yep, that's a howlin moon shot, very nice

micknewton

Very nice! I like the fact that you were able to keep the blue sky. I've tried a few moon shots, but I haven't got one yet that I like. I think the trick to a good moon shot is getting the right composition. If there are no other objects in the composition, or the other objects don't compliment the moon, then the shot doesn't work. In your photo, the foreground trees frame the moon nicely.

KeithAlanK

Jerry, that beats my attempt by a long shot.
Mine was late afternoon, and came out better than expected but I like yours better.
(For the experts, are these examples of bokeh or not?)

micknewton

KeithAlanK wrote:

(For the experts, are these examples of bokeh or not?)

Nice photo Keith, but I don't think it's a good example of bokeh. I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that bokeh describes out-of-focus specular highlights (points of light) in an image. There are several different descriptions and samples available on the web. Here's one... http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/bokeh.htm

KeithAlanK

Thanks, Mick. Good reading, there and at lum/land.
I had been led to believe that bokeh (or boke) was a compositional technique where you selectively place what should have been the subject out of focus while focusing on the background, to good effect.
But it seems it's more of a technical term to describe the quality of the out-of-focus rendition of a given lens.
I should have looked it up myself first before proving I'm ignorant, eh?

Jerry Curtis

Thanks

KeithAlanK wrote:

Jerry, that beats my attempt by a long shot.
Mine was late afternoon, and came out better than expected but I like yours
better.

Thanks for all the positive feedback, folks. Really appreciated!