Black Full Moonby
neakhaComment by FrankRobinson: Hi Neakha, welcome to the Critique Club.
My overall impression of your photo is that there is a lot of space in it. It doesn't really grab me or tell me a story - there is just a black mark at the centre of a white picture. That said, I think your idea was very interesting - I might have just done it a little differently.
Technically: Your choice of settings is interesting. You are clearly trying to get the fastest possible shutter speed. Personally, I would not attempt this shot without a tripod and either remote release, or using a 10 sec delay (which would work just fine here) to avoid camera shake. You can then reduce the ISO to about 400, limiting noise, and close the aperture down to maybe f7.1 where the lens can perform much better. This will give you an exposure of maybe 2 secs or so, allowing more detail to be captured, and maybe some nice movement. You could even close the aperture or drop the ISO even more until you have a ten second exposure - with those clouds I think it could be fun!
Artistically: A 55mm focal length is pretty short to be shooting the moon, but if you maximise image quality as above, you could crop quite heavily to draw the viewer in to the moon and exciting cloud shapes around it. I would also avoid placing the moon dead centre, I think about one third in from the left and a little below half way up would work for me, most of the interesting clouds are on the right hand side anyway.
Post Processing: There is not much detail about what you did here, but a simple inversion, tighter crop and some sharpening (using the unsharp mask tool maybe) would help. You could also try using curves to enhance the contrast a little, and pick up the colour saturation a little to give it more interest.
In summary, this could be a really interesting photo idea, but I would try re-shooting and experimenting with some of these ideas to make it stand out a little more. Happy hunting!
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