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Nice image, although I was disappointed to find out that it's a composite.

The solar eclipse was partially visible in Prague. Shortly after the

sunrise it was already visible to the naked eye behind the haze and

clouds in the city. Here it is rising next to the Zizkov TV tower while

one of the infamous babies crawling on the tower watches. Taken with

a Pentacon 500mm lens and a 2x Russian teleconverter.

Nice picture, would be nice to at least admit that it's a composite though.

Sunset behind the St. Laurence church in Prague. Taken about 4km

away from the church with a 500mm Pentacon lens and a 2x

teleconverter.

Like the foreground, but the fake moon detracts from the reality of the image.

I spend hours upon hours walking around looking for vantage points, calculating moon rise/set spots and planning outings to get the moon right where I want it. I often wonder if this is simply a pointless exercise when I see composite images that are getting POW honors. It would seem that it is.

This is what photography is supposed to be about. Fantastic work, continue on your path.

I continue to wonder why I spend hours and hours planning/plotting/travelling/studying to try and get shots of the moon that don't need to be photoshopped in order to balance the highlights/shadows, when it appears that all I need to do is take multiple frames in order to make it on the front page...

I actually quite like the image, although I find it just slightly underexposed in my opinion.

Really nice one, beautiful lines.

Great work man.  Nailing these kinds of exposures isn't easy, especially when trying to keep it looking natural.

Beautiful.  Distinct proof that there is absolutely no substitute for determination and being at the right place at the right time.

Great image, it's always nice to see images that don't rely on separate exposures for the moon.

Nice idea, the moon looks quite fake though.

a sunrise from last year over Prague. Just wanted to get some input

about what could be improved about the image from a

compositional/other standpoint.

 

thanks for comments!

This is one of my personal favorites. Taken about 30 minutes after

sunrise, the morning sun gave the wings on the birds this golden/fiery

color in front of the nearly full moon. I was snapping shots of the moon

setting and decided to just point at the daytime moon and see what

would happen. Taken with a 300mm Pentacon lens and Russian 2x

teleconverter of generic type.

Very nice work.

Would definitely like it more if the moon didn't look so out of place due to compositing, nice colors in the foreground.

Great framing and nice technique.

I like this image, but it looks like you were very close to being able to fit the trees in at the top of the frame, to me they look cut off a little bit.

 

Regardless, nice eye and good work.

Great work Dan. Might I ask what you used to fit the FD lens onto your 5D?

Thank you all for the comments, I'm always happy to get some feedback.

 

@Jana: The orange towards the horizon is actually light pollution. When it's clear enough it doesn't intrude too much on the upper sky, but provides a nice background light for objects in the foreground.

a composite of untracked and tracked images of the stars over a tree

near the krkonose mountains.

Incredible, nice job.

Nice work, but in my opinion the moon looks a bit too fake. I'm assuming this is either a moon from a separate exposure or that it was 'hilight recovered' so much to get some detail in it. The image might actually look better with the original moon in it, as it would at least match the reflection in the water and not look so pasted in.