On Sun, Feb 10, 2013, P. J. Alling wrote: > On 2/10/2013 5:43 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >> >>http://rule6.info/photos/critique/moon/ >> >>I'm curious which shot(s) people like best -- and why. This was a quick >>experiment in long exposures (I noticed the moon peeking through the >>trees and ran in to get my A710 and tripod). The shots are nothing to >>write home about, but might be suitable for postcards. > > All of your moon shots have the moon over exposed. The brightness > range is really too great to get anything except the moon properly > exposed or get the rest of the shot with some kind of correct > exposure and let the moon's exposure fall where it may. Those are > your choices unless you're looking to do some kind of composite > image or some extreme form of HDR.
Yup, the moon is way overexposed. So the question is whether any of the shots work at the aesthetic level despite that. To me, 422 looks something like the effect you get when you've been walking in a dark forest and suddenly you see the full moon -- it looks eye-searingly bright. OTOH, if I have to explain it, by definition it doesn't work. :-/ On Sun, Feb 10, 2013, Larry Colen wrote: > > In reality, there are some photo that simply don't work, and I'm > afraid this is one, or possibly ten, of them. Also, in cases like > this, the important info is the exposure data. My gallery script definitely needs to get updated to output the EXIF data. I happen to like the effect of blown highlights, sometimes. Here's another example with multiple exposures, and I picked the +2EV one for the "floating" effect and shadow removal. Make sure you look at the 100% image, there's marbling in the blown highlights that doesn't show at smaller sizes (if I were printing this I'd probably go for 9x12 or 12x18): http://rule6.info/photos/critique/legion/ http://rule6.info/photos/sf_2012_04/ -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
