More Garden Moonscapes

The great eclipse shots inspired me to process my shoot, something I don't seem to do regularly lately. Thanks guys!

I have to thank my wife for reminding me about the eclipse and motivating me to get out, even though it meant working today on 3 hours sleep. Thankfully I don't operate heavy machinery.


This shot highlights the famous Kissing Camels. The superwide angle looks a little off kilter but I couln't find a horizon line that worked with the far formation. The light and color on the rocks is pretty much ambient light from Colorado Springs.

Canon 5DII, Nikon 14-24 f2.8
Sky f2.8 @ 5s
Rock f2.8@20s blended

This shot is looking west through the garden towards Pikes Peak
I darkened the rock formations blending them into the darker exposure, same with the previous post. I didn't want them to stand out too much from the sky but they seem maybe a little too dark. Let me know what you think.

Canon 5DII, Nikon 14-24 f2.8
Sky f2.8 @ 6s
Rock f2.8@25s blended

I think the compression and srgb conversion is killing these. They are much brighter in lightroom.

Seems I captured a visitor observing the eclipse with us! Or is that moon flare?
Unprocessed shot
Canon 5DII, Tamron 28-75 f2.8, 10s@f2.8

And just for good measure. I enjoyed shooting with my new (to me) Canon 100-400 f4.5-5.6L IS lens.
Here is a tight crop at 400mm (wish I'd remembered I had my teleconverter!)

Canon 5DII, Canon 100-400IS, 1.6s@f5.6 400mm ISO 800 (all shots)

And I thought I was the only one who did these with a wide angle lens :-)

Cool. Really like that first one.

Nice set of images and effort. Never get sick of viewing those FF shots. I'm surprised at the good results you got from your 100-400.

I love your "visitor" in #3.

That's great sharpness with your 100-400 mm, especially at 1.6 seconds!

Bill,
I was kinda surprised to see the 'visitor' when I went through the images. I wasn't quite sure what it was at first since it's in all of the exposures but only for that couple of series. I thought maybe it was a cloud or something else.

In the tele shot, I'm just glad it was focused. I think the focus could be sharper. I can't remember if I autofocused that shot or eyeballed/guessed manual focus.

Neat collection Kalin. I especially like the first image. The foreground is interesting and you can tell the moon is discolored and not quite its normal self. I like seeing the surrounding constellations as well. There does seem to be just a little haloing around the rocks left over from the blend. All it would take is a tighter zoom while working on this in PS to get deep in there and clear or clone it out for your final image. Nicely done!

Nice work Kalin!

Thanks, Josh. I noticed a little residual glow too. That's what I get for doing blends at one in the morning

Great effort, Josh. I slept through it all so this is my only view. Thanks!

I really like #3, very original looking. The first two look a bit dark to me.

Aside from the halos, #1 is my favorite, but I really enjoyed the whole series.

Very cool shots!