dcstep

There's too much over saturated crap on PN. You got it right the first time, or in you B/W version. I enjoyed recognizing a true color from my past. Over on No Words there's a thread "Green". Go there to see some sickening over saturation of greens. BTW, now that I'm selling in a gallery, I saturate more than I used to. Buyers don't tend to care too much about "reality". In this case, the "true" old color is best and perfectly captured, IMO>

The moon is very bright, so it only need f/8, 1/800-sec and ISO 800, you can adjust accordingly from there. You don't say which Sony, but the current ones will have as much or more DR as your old DSLR, you just need to learn how to use in. You don't say which RAW conversion software you're using. In DxO, if you exposed for the moon, then you'd selectively keep the moon unchanged and raise the EV of everything else. If it's supposed to be dark out, you've raised it too much in your original exposure. I doubt that this image can be rescued, because you've blown out all the moon details with over exposure. Turn on the histogram in your EVF and learn to use it. Next time, you'll see exposure guidance right in your EVF.

Finch Fight

My "rule" with flying and running subjects is to always have them moving into the frame, which I would apply here. You've broken another of my "rules" is to almost never show the subject moving away and have a head angle that's parallel or positive to the camera, not away. I'm surprised that you'd consider "showing" either. I tell my students to take these shots as they practice getting the camera up in time to get the shot with the birds coming at them, instead of tail feathers. A beginner will have almost 90% of their shots looking like this. I DO sometimes show tail feathers, but because something unusual is going on, or the feathers themselves look dramatic. For example, something like this, even though the left wing is nipped off:

Mike, I much prefer the B/W. In the color version, the bright subject overwhelms the dark BG, IMO. I know that you're shooting from the audience and didn't want to disturb other, but I wish that we could see all of his right hand. I love that he's using music. As trumpeter and sometime guitarist, I almost always use music. Classical musicians tend to almost always read as they play.