Nearing total eclipse

Please critique

Congratulations, last night there were several making the same thing.

Greetings

A very recent photo I suppose. There was an eclipse this very night. Excellent framing. Is it a photomontage ?

Nice Jeff, I was sleeping last night.

you have seen that to he, you have proof. mike

Somewhat bizarre, I guess the effect is intentional. I invite you to view mine at

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1896738

... the moon is framed by the trees so the details of those trees are captured. The camera cannot provide a detailed image of the moon, so the resulting effect is that it appears somewhat blurred. In the future I hope to be able to hook the camera up to a telescope to be able to get the magnificent images I've seen in the postings over the past day. Thanks for your comment.

This is an interesting photoin that it looks rather ideological and should be able to pass for non-photographic art.

 

Maybe like an image from a dream.

thank you for sharing this photo with us...i planned to look and take photos the moon during that eclipse but i forgot when the time came...

 

beautiful image

A very nice composition. Good rich blacks. Any photoshopping to get the deep black?

1. This is a photo montage.

-The moon was photographed,

-the scenery was photographed,

-and the two were combined as separate layers in PS.

 

2. The scenery was actually imaged in daylight, and darkened to make it appear that it was taken at night.

 

3. The moon was cut out of the image it appeared in originally, and placed on a dark gray background.

 

Put it all together, and this is what you get.

A day within a night; a night within a day.

 

Great idea! Borrow moon from outside source. Paste into personal layout.

 

That's why you dah man!

The concept is very original! I can see the PS cut & paste of the images quite easily on my screens, though. Try playing with some of the selection tools available in PS and pick the one with most natural coverage, although it might be difficult to do this on the foreground foliage. Use of the feathering option might help.

 

Love it!!

You mention your desire to hook up your camera to a telscope. You will probably find that you get too close (the magnification is too high). For example, here is a composite of the Moon I prepared from multiple shots through a telescope (I don't refer to it so as to brag: I consider mine too blurry to be pleasing, as I found it very difficult to focus the telescope properly). Each rectangular frame represents one photograph. Much better Moon shots can be obtained using a long telephoto camera lens on an SLR. This is an example where I used a camera with a 500mm f/8 mirror lens on a 2x teleconverter (if you don't have access to a 500mm lens, even a 200mm lens can give good results, although you'll get a smaller Moon of course). The shutter speeds are quite fast, around 1/250 sec, because of the Moon's brightness.

About your composite - I don't really like it all that much, not because of your 'vision' but rather because of your 'execution': using trees from a daytime shot is fine, and they look fine too. But the sky needs to be improved - with its plain colour, it looks like a cloudy night, but then how can the Moon show up? If I were you, I would photograph a real night sky - amazingly easy to get good results with a digital P&S - you get stars and everything!! If you kept the trees as they are, used a real night sky, and improved the Moon, your composite would be fantastic I believe. Let me know if you ever give it another try.

Jeff, At your invitation I looked through most of your work. You don't need anyone else to teach you; you have the ability to see things in your own special way. Just run with your vision. As far as Photoshop goes, every time they upgrade versions you will leave behind 98% of its abilities unlearned. I learn a little more about that program each week - it never ends. Exploration is the path you too will take. Have a good journey.