Post your photography!!

[devnull]

The moon has been visible from my balcony of late. Needed to get some shots before it's somewhere else.

It's a challenge. The sunlight bouncing off it looks simple, but it's not as straightforward as one would think. I'd like to be able to capture the color of the sky around it and the ring that can be seen illuminating its full diameter. I need to review some of the tutorials on editing moon images. I've forgotten much of what I learned last year already. It's generally not like editing any of the other styles I shoot.

This is ok, but I want better.

Shot with a Sony A7R IVa, 200-600 zoom, 2X converter, tripod, yadda yadda yadda.

Oh, I did have an ND8 filter on. I think it helped temper the brightness of the moon somewhat. I know I can probably get around using it, but thought I'd try it anyway.

 

[old_tv_nut]

The moon is a dark rock lit by the sun. An ND filter does nothing to change the dynamic range and just makes it harder to capture the darker areas without noise. Take off the filter and adjust exposure just low enough to not clip the highlights; shoot in raw and play with the highlights and shadows and/or the tone curve.

 

[mwolfe]

 

[devnull]

The moon is a dark rock lit by the sun. An ND filter does nothing to change the dynamic range and just makes it harder to capture the darker areas without noise. Take off the filter and adjust exposure just low enough to not clip the highlights; shoot in raw and play with the highlights and shadows and/or the tone curve.

The ND8 was just an experiment. And I'm just searching for improvements on what I've done from last year.

I ended going back to the typical settings I've read about, well 100 ISO. The rest is up to you so I usually turn on stabilization, go manual and set things to where it's just slightly underexposed, such as 1/8 exposure at mid to high F settings. I shot a range a little while ago. They look pretty good.

I suppose what I was attempting to say is I want to capture not just the moon and represent it well, but also everything around it, such as clouds or contrails or whatever.

Just shot this a little while ago. 200-600 zoom on the A7R IVa and the settings I mentioned. I cropped this one perhaps 50%. Post was a little local contrast, a little sharpening and the crop. Makes for a good post for someone lazy. Tonight is a good night for these shots. I use a good tripod, but when you are using a big zoom, I find it necessary to stabilize it with 10lbs of weight. Otherwise there's a lot of movement in the frame even on a breeze.

I'm thinking of using masks to work on the moon and the background separately. I've just started learning that technique.

This shot had a blue background generated from twilight sunlight. I want to see if I can recover that. Maybe one of the earlier shots where it was brighter would be a better candidate than this image.

 

[devnull]

Seems that a HDR approach might provide a solution for moon images. I've not worked with this before, so it's a new process for me, although not entirely different in concept to focus stacking. Presently I'm not sure what software I'll be using to combine those images. I don't think there's an option for doing it in camera.

I'll also pull back aperture to F8-F13 somewhere.

 

[Modlin]

 

[Modlin]

 

[onepixel]

Summer Solstice

 

[mhedges]

Dining Room (MD abandoned house) by Mark Hedges, on Flickr

 

[H2oman7.62mm]

 

[dfunghi]

My 13+ year old pup taking a sun bath. On an 85 degree day!

 

[devnull]

Finally got out and took a walk with my camera to get some flower shots. Sony A74 IVa, Sony 90mm macro lens, 2 Godox MF12 flashes mounted on a ring on the lens.

 

[GuyK]

Seems that a HDR approach might provide a solution for moon images. I've not worked with this before, so it's a new process for me, although not entirely different in concept to focus stacking. Presently I'm not sure what software I'll be using to combine those images. I don't think there's an option for doing it in camera.

I'll also pull back aperture to F8-F13 somewhere.

My Nikon Z8 allows an HDR exposure in-camera, but I think it outputs as a jpeg rather than raw, so options for any post are limited. I don't remember what software you're using, but there is likely an option for an HDR stack somewhere. I've been using Capture One, and this can be done easily, but I haven't played with it much.

 

[Modlin]

 

[devnull]

My Nikon Z8 allows an HDR exposure in-camera, but I think it outputs as a jpeg rather than raw, so options for any post are limited. I don't remember what software you're using, but there is likely an option for an HDR stack somewhere. I've been using Capture One, and this can be done easily, but I haven't played with it much.

It's unfortunate that Sony hasn't provided that feature for processing the image in camera, but the moon shots are actually a wider dynamic range than the standard HDR provides, or at least on a Sony. I'm somewhat manually managing the HDR where I take a shot for the moon, then back the exposure off to what works for the sky and take another within a second or two.

I'll have to align them once I get to processing. I use Darktable for processing now, but I'll probably use GIMP for combining the images (although there are a few other methods I'll check out). I took some shots just after sunset. No clouds or anything of interest so I'll have to be satisfied with a blue background. Good enough.

 

[Danddd]

Napping Cats

 

[audiocrzy]

The assignment is rust

 

[ys3ed5]

i like to do urbex and automotive photography!here’s some of my favorites.

 

[onepixel]

 

[mhedges]

Dining room Fireplace Detail (MD Abandoned House) by Mark Hedges, on Flickr