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02/02/2010 10:23:30 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club!
Sorry about the wait for your critique, this is coming out of the backlog!
I see you're a fellow Rebel XS user! There's very few of us around that submit to challenges. You received some good comments during and after the challenge. The composition is good, diagonal lines are always good. I've never taken any pictures of the moon so I can't really give any helpful advice as to camera settings or anything.
The only major thing bringing down your image is the black ring around the moon. It kind of gives it a fake feel, as if it's a shadow and the sky is a backdrop. Anyways I think without that ring and even if you kept the foreground more in a silhouette style you would have placed better in the moon challenge.
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Senay |
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01/22/2010 07:03:32 AM |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
Looking at your shooting info, iso100, .5sec @ f4.5? The moon looks like maybe iso 100 1/500sec f 4.5. At the settings that you posted, the moon would be overexposed, unless you were using a neutral density filter.
The dark halo may be from using too much highlight reduction. That happens with my shots too, and I have learned to watch for it when processing images.
To get better overall sharpness for a moon shot with foreground, a much smaller aperture value, like f16 would be helpful. That would increase the depth of field, which is pretty narrow with a 300mm at f4.5.
Welcome to DPC. I have learned a lot about shooting here, and I hope you enjoy the site as much as I have. |
Thank you for the advice. I will have to give it another shot with the settings you suggested. This was my first outing shooting the moon and I never realized how bright it really is. Thank you for the comment. I was not using a ND filter (don't have one but that will be my next purchase to shoot the waterfalls around here) |
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01/21/2010 10:59:55 PM |
Looking at your shooting info, iso100, .5sec @ f4.5? The moon looks like maybe iso 100 1/500sec f 4.5. At the settings that you posted, the moon would be overexposed, unless you were using a neutral density filter.
The dark halo may be from using too much highlight reduction. That happens with my shots too, and I have learned to watch for it when processing images.
To get better overall sharpness for a moon shot with foreground, a much smaller aperture value, like f16 would be helpful. That would increase the depth of field, which is pretty narrow with a 300mm at f4.5.
Welcome to DPC. I have learned a lot about shooting here, and I hope you enjoy the site as much as I have. |
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01/13/2010 06:53:23 PM |
| Welcome! Keep at it; you'll get there. |
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01/13/2010 06:58:32 AM |
| I thank you all for your comments. I had just bought a new 75-300mm lens for Christmas and I went out on the 30th to play around with it. After taking the shots and coming back I signed up for this site and noticed a moon challenge so I decided to enter een though I knew it wasn't a great shot but was looking for feedback. I look forward to the challenges to come and me stretching myself and growing in photography. At least I didn't come in last :) |
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01/12/2010 05:43:40 PM |
| Too much sharpening maybe? The halos are unattractive. |
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01/12/2010 09:00:53 AM |
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01/11/2010 10:23:55 PM |
| The ring is really weird, not sure if it is an intended effect. |
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01/11/2010 05:26:07 PM |
| Nice framing of the moon with the grass and I like the diagonal through the image. Unfortunately, the image looks over processed: it's perhaps oversharpened, and there's a weird black halo around the moon. |
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01/10/2010 08:11:42 PM |
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01/07/2010 11:41:40 PM |
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01/07/2010 08:31:09 PM |
I like this except for the dark ring around the moon. The composition is right. It's a pleasing image overall.
Message edited by author 2010-01-13 20:21:26. |
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01/07/2010 12:36:38 PM |
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01/06/2010 03:02:26 PM |
| This would be a fine photo but the black halo around the moon is unnatural and diminishes the attempt. Otherwise well imagined and executed. |
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01/06/2010 06:48:39 AM |
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