April supermoon in town.

[Felias]

I was wondering what people here think about composites. I took these pictures of the supermoon earlier this week, and I combined three consecutive shots with different exposures, using layers in Photoshop. I was aiming for a look close to what I could see with the naked eye, but enhancing the shadows and colours in the foreground. Any comments, tips or tricks to improve the images will be most welcome.

Both photos taken with a Canon 77D and its standard 18-55 mm lens. First picture combines the following exposures, all at ISO 100, F/4:

Foreground, 10 seconds

Sky, 1 second

Moon, 1/200 seconds

 

And the second picture, all at ISO 200, F/5.6:

Foreground, 2 seconds

Sky 1/2 seconds

Moon 1/400 seconds

 

 

[Stu]

They look excellent to me, I like them!

[Dave61]

Very nicely done, love the second one. 

[Craney]

Very  nice.  Full Moon landscape shots are not easy due to scale and massive differences  in brightness. It is either the landscape or the Moon.

Your pictures look believable and that is the key.  

FB seems to be getting a lot of 'engineered'  photos these days  that just do not look real.  ( ....green trees, grass and the Sun in Hydrogen Alpha !!!!  🤔  )

 

[Felias]

Thank you all for the kind comments!

 

2 hours ago, Craney said:

Very  nice.  Full Moon landscape shots are not easy due to scale and massive differences  in brightness. It is either the landscape or the Moon.

Your pictures look believable and that is the key.  

FB seems to be getting a lot of 'engineered'  photos these days  that just do not look real.  ( ....green trees, grass and the Sun in Hydrogen Alpha !!!!  🤔  )

 

Yes, although they are obviously a composite of several exposures, I don't want them to feel completely unreal. I found that playing with the transparency of the moon layer over the sky layer helped a lot in blending them more realistically.