Shoot the Moon, Part Deaux!!!

[theantiquetiger]

OK, there is another full moon, so I headed out just as it cameout to catch it at its largest.

Here is my post produced image. I had to do ALOT of blending to get it to look half real. I still see as VERY fake. How natural does it look to you

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6663800135_03d5e4e300_z.jpg

and here are the two images I produced it from

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6663799481_f73de6cfe1_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6663798981_b1b9b1757f_z.jpg

[Mad Aussie]

Not your best work mate. We can see the ghosting from the blending etc.

Here's a couple I did in this vain ...
http://www.photography.ca/Forums/f11/thought-id-moon-ya-6514.html
http://www.photography.ca/Forums/f11/lake-moon-b-w-7257.html

Having 400mm (x 1.6) really helps.

[theantiquetiger]

Yeah, mine is really bad, it does look a little sci-fi

I know what I did wrong, I put the sharp moon image layer on top of the cloudy moon layer, instead of vise versa. Here it is again with cloudy layer on top

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6665841331_21f64140fb_b.jpg

[Mad Aussie]

Not very sharp but it looks a lot better than the first try :) More natural. Try banging up the contrast/levels on that cloudy layer a bit perhaps.

[theantiquetiger]

Not very sharp but it looks a lot better than the first try :) More natural. Try banging up the contrast/levels on that cloudy layer a bit perhaps.

I took your advice, bumped up contrast and levels, came out pretty nice

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6666332669_c8d9cbeebd_b.jpg



http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6666516853_42981124a8_b.jpg

[susan]

another thing you can do too tiger is to select the moon in the layer then use a mask, a brush and black and bring the moon back to the focus it began with. shot three is fun and whimsical - nice imagination. :-)