Posted by Doug Koepsel on August 12, 2011 at 11:01 AM
According to TPE, last night was to be the evening this summer to catch the nearly full moon rising over Cathedral Rock and be seen from the pools of Oak Creek.
I did not get a good exposure of the moon to clone in, so this single exposure has the white blob. As always, please feel free to give honest critiques and suggestions.
Posted by Doug Koepsel on August 12, 2011 at 11:02 AM
#2 A tighter shot of just the reflection taken with 70-300 @ 70mm. In retrospect, I wish I was at a little lower angle to have the top of Cathedral closer to the foreground rock/less sky in the reflection.
Posted by Jim Bennett on August 12, 2011 at 11:06 AM
Nice composition. The one thing that bothers me is that the reflected moon seems much brighter than the moon in the sky.
Posted by Stan Rose on August 12, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Sweet! The moon isnt a problem, but the halos around the tree are.
Posted by Doug Koepsel on August 12, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Stan, here is a redo with different sharpening to hopefully reduce halos.
I took the original sharpened full sized image, resized to 1600pix vertically, sharpened 100/0.5/0, then resized to 720p and saved for web. Less halo, but seems visibly softer.
Previous version was resized to 1600pix, autosharpened twice, resized to 720p, then saved for web.
Feedback?Suggestions?
Posted by Todd Caudle on August 12, 2011 at 3:56 PM
What Stan said. The re-do looks a lot better. Sweet shot.
Posted by John Mumaw on August 12, 2011 at 6:24 PM
Extremely beautiful, Doug! Love how the trees and the rocks frame the monoliths and reflection. One of the better images I've seen from this area. The overxposed moon doesn't bother me one bit. Really!
If the full res, version doesn't suffer from those haloes, then this is no problem here.
However, you posted this in AdobeRGB color space, which doesn't play well with web browsers.
There appears to be a pretty strong magenta cast which may just be the product of the time of day. I notice that the color cast is almost gone in the zoomed in version.
Try this and see what you think. On a duplicate layer, choose the grey eyedropper in Levels/Curves and click on one of the rocks on the center right to see the difference. It's a pretty big difference that you may not care for, so change the layer blend mode from Normal to Luminosity. This brings back the magenta cast while brightening thngs up a bit. Play around with the layer's opacity for more options.
Did you try that Image Polish technique with this one?
Sorry 'bout all of the advice, but this is a stone beauty (..ouch! ) that deserves to be seen in the best light possible.
See ya Saturday!
Posted by Dan Walters on August 13, 2011 at 7:19 PM
Really like the reflection. Very creative.
Posted by Jack Brauer on August 18, 2011 at 11:11 AM
Gorgeous! Perfect comp with the interesting foreground elements, reflection, light, moon... it's got it all! Very nice.
Discussion
8 repliesI did not get a good exposure of the moon to clone in, so this single exposure has the white blob. As always, please feel free to give honest critiques and suggestions.
I took the original sharpened full sized image, resized to 1600pix vertically, sharpened 100/0.5/0, then resized to 720p and saved for web. Less halo, but seems visibly softer.
Previous version was resized to 1600pix, autosharpened twice, resized to 720p, then saved for web.
Feedback?Suggestions?
If the full res, version doesn't suffer from those haloes, then this is no problem here.
However, you posted this in AdobeRGB color space, which doesn't play well with web browsers.
There appears to be a pretty strong magenta cast which may just be the product of the time of day. I notice that the color cast is almost gone in the zoomed in version.
Try this and see what you think. On a duplicate layer, choose the grey eyedropper in Levels/Curves and click on one of the rocks on the center right to see the difference. It's a pretty big difference that you may not care for, so change the layer blend mode from Normal to Luminosity. This brings back the magenta cast while brightening thngs up a bit. Play around with the layer's opacity for more options.
Did you try that Image Polish technique with this one?
Sorry 'bout all of the advice, but this is a stone beauty (..ouch!
See ya Saturday!