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



and here are the two images I produced it from

[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 ...
Thought I'd Moon ya!
Lake Moon in B&W

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

[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

[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. :-)