Peach Moon in Deep Purple

ONE OF THESE DAYS I AM GOING TO LEARN HOW TO SHOOT THE MOON! Iadjusted "Shadows and Highlights" in PS CS4 to get this brightenedforeground. Otherwise, it is like another image in the same folder. Comments welcome--especially if you have ever tried to get the moonand the earth in the same exposure after sunset.

--Lannie

 

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--Lannie

Twilight is such a wonderful time to be alive--but (in my experience) such a difficult time to capture in an image.  It is all the more difficult to do so with the moon and the earth showing some detail in the same exposure.  The eye has no trouble doing that (showing both at once), but cameras have more trouble.

 

Here I have adjusted Shadows/Highlights in Photoshop to bring out the detail on the earth, since the whole scene had to be pretty dark to keep the moon (sitting out there in bright sunlight) from over-exposing.

 

[THIS VERSION] was done without adjusting Shadows/Highlights.  Yes, some detail is visible on the surface of the moon, but at the cost of very little detail on the earth.

 

Here are some attempts that are much better than my own feeble efforts:

 

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--Lannie

I am amazed at the difference between the land and sky in this one. Great job with the PS! 

Wonder what difference there would be with the new camera?

 

empty roads.  i've taken a lot of pictures of the Mersey that look like this lately.  best, jamie

My own question would be whether using Shadows/Hightlights (or HDR, for that matter) really represents "in the same exposure."  I would say "no."

 

Diane, I think that software and post-processing are going to be far more important than better (higher) dynamic range between one camera and another.  I will let others more knowledgeable than myself on the technical questions answer that.

 

Of course, when all else fails, I suppose that I could learn to paste in another image, but I  frankly have not wanted to bother.  I'm sure that it must be easy to learn to do that, since so many people do it, but I have never bothered.

 

I'm sure that you remember this discussion.

 

--Lannie

Jamie, I've never thought of it quite like that, although solitude can be important for appreciating nature, I think.  Is this "nature"?

 

"Open roads" is the phrase that is more evocative to me.  "When the sun is riding high in the blazing sky" and all that. . . .   Why not "When the moon is sailing by in the darkening sky. . . "?

 

The moon "sailing" . . .

 

  Well, that phrase has been much used in literature.  I would like to give the Nobel Prize in Literature to the person who first came up with that metaphor.

 

The full moon and I have this thing for each other, I think--right out there in the open, too.  She shines her light on me, and I laud her beauty.  She's rather fickle or even promiscuous in that regard, though.  Women can be that way, you know.  I do know that she has a lot of suitors.  She still comes around every month or so, though. . . .

 

--Lannie

 

[THE MERSEY AT TWILIGHT]

 

Jamie, that is absolutely wonderful!

 

  It must be great to see these things so long celebrated in poetry and song!

 

--Lannie

"So here I'll stay."

Why go home?  Where is home anymore, Jamie?

 

--Lannie