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What can I do to improve this shot?

JonnyLottoJonnyLotto Registered Users Posts: 3 Big grins
edited February 12, 2009 in Technique
471089353_S56Lo-L.jpg

Basically a driveway shot, cheap tripod, Sony alpha 300/SSS on. Lens is a Tokina AT-X 400mm.

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    KyleMc569KyleMc569 Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited February 12, 2009
    Very little unless the moon is very low on an interesting horizon. Most good moon pictures are Photoshop composites. I tried to get an interesting sky during the full lunar eclipse last year and the exposure was still too high to get any appreciable stars in the frame.
    JonnyLotto wrote:
    471089353_S56Lo-L.jpg

    Basically a driveway shot, cheap tripod, Sony alpha 300/SSS on. Lens is a Tokina AT-X 400mm.
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    FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited February 12, 2009
    It looks great to me, driveway shot or no.

    You might want to try a crop. It would make the moon even larger in the frame. Perhaps use the rule of thirds and offset it a bit more from center.

    I agree with Kyle that using it in a composite with something interesting at the horizon, could give the shot more dramatic interest. Or maybe you could take a shot from exactly the same spot on a night when there is no moon and add the stars.

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