Luna Plena

I don't know what to say, Robert...

I know you're not afraid of the odd photographical experiment and that is what this feels/looks like. In Picture This terms, I would call this "incongruous". It appears that there's been a fair bit of dodging and burning going on, during the process of combining two images? Please forgive me for questioning how you arrived at this fascinating end result. Largely a product of my own lack of understanding of Photoshop! I shall return with more thoughts later...

what do you think about the montage of the moon?

critique welcome.

Peter, thank you for critique. Here we have the montage and enhencement of saturation of the houses. Also I put a part of the IR-picture ( background meadows and forest). contrast was increased. It was a night shot. Ok 3 pictures are on it. Moon,the bright forest part and as basis the orignal night shot with the overexposured moon. Please critique all what you can find in it.

best robertO

Finally made it back!

Thank you Robert for your explanation, it does help me to understand what I am looking at. Some honest thoughts... The position of the brightest object (Luna) is too close to the top left corner for my taste. I assume that the two pine trees are in the original frame with the (overexposed) Moon. I would, at least, have positioned the Moon between the two trees, just to draw it more into this composition. Not sure if Mr. Wounds' Moon image really comes out close to what the real full moon looks like - only saying this because I've been looking at the Moon for many years (with and without telescopes).

The area immediately to the right of the second pine tree appears to be too dark, especially compared to the adjoining (lighter)IR-landscape. The three street lights also seem out of place in this part of the image (sort of like - why street lights in a forest?). In other words, I would have cloned them out. The houses seem to be built in the middle of this pristine forest without having the appropriate development approvals first ;-)

However, it still is a rather nice collection of typical German architecture. Everything definitely looks as if it was illuminated by the Moon and street lights - even the IR-landscape in the background could pass as a full moon scene, so all is not as bad as I have made it sound. Like I said above, it is a fascinating end result and I should look/comment on more of your work (look at least). The only reason that I haven't done so, is that you get a fair amount of coverage from all quarters and there are many, many images that are neglected. Until next time, best regards!

The lightened area in the center tends to tak away from this beautiful photo. a bit more blending from light to dark would soften the contrast. The city is beautiful.

I would not add the treescape in the middle, but that's just me.

 

 

Hi Robert, I like this image, but I would like to see more of the trees in the middle going right to the top of the hill, also the blending in of the houses is not too good, I feel it is too black around them particularly around the top left. If you could try a new layer mask and maybe gently remove the black around the houses I feel you'd have an excellent image. The moon is perfect and really suits this picture, well done and best regards - Richard.

thanky you all for your comments. I tried here to not manipulate much. So the trees are in original location. also the composition was given by my shot location on my balcony and I had only few minutes to do it.

Normally I would try to shot the moon with 500mm lens ( don't have one :-() on a dark sky and the town in a separate photo. But may be next time.

Robert, technically I can't comment because I'm just no good at all that stuff, but that old devil moon's just gotta be pulled into the picture more. And I wonder why there's no indication of the moon's light on the ground. But as Peter says, it still has some visual appeal. Well, I think he said something like that didn't he?