Mospaw
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| Two photos married. What do you think?
The moon and "star"... | 
With a nice sky and trees... | 
Married together |
As anyone who has tried to photograph the moon can attest, it's difficult to do well, especially with only 8x zoom, since the moon stays small. 
I took a series of photos two of which are above (the third is the result of the marriage), and the second one above really struck me as nice but the moon and star were really overexposed. The First photo is nicely exposed for the moon and star, but the rest of it is black. So I married them in Photoshop by placing the moon and star shot over the sky shot. The rest of the shots were pretty much more of the same and not worth keeping.
If you look in the third shot, you can see where I took the moon and star out. I don't think it's too detectable if you didn't know the shots were married. Finally, I put another layer behind the moon and star layer with only a gray disk on it to simulate the rest of the moon.
I then adjusted the colors and reduced the noise a bit.
What do you think? I could try to pass the final result as the real thing. Could I get away with it? I know it's not perfect, but as I was doing a quick job on it, I figured I'd post the whole thing and get some thoughts not only on the specific photos I did, but marrying two photos and passing the results off as original. |
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Pacrat
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| I think you should be more careful where you post these things. Someone might get the wrong idea! 
Judging by the brightness and size... my guess is either Saturn or Jupiter. Saturn's rings are supposed to visible now, making it look considerably larger!
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Macy
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I think it looks pretty cool. I'm not sure that you could pass it off as authentic though.
For a cool effect, who cares if it's real or a little fake. I like it.
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SandShark
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I believe what you did is commonly referred to as contrast masking. See here - »www.luminous-landscape.com/tutor···ng.shtml
To the untrained eye, I would suppose you could pass it off as the real thing. Why you would want to, I don't know. I do, however, think you did a bang up job! Nice work! |
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What you were seeing was Venus. Venus has been spectacularly bright lately.
»www.space.com/spacewatch/venus_m···123.html
I urge everyone to take a look at it from twilight up until a couple hours after sunset when Venus also sets. They say that around May 2, it might even be visible during the day!
»www.space.com/spacewatch/venus_g···024.html
I was planning to photograph this unique site tonight, but clouds got in my way. Nice job Mospaw!
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urquell
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I think it looks great!...the sky especially. As to passing it off as original, why would you want to do that? The picture is effective to me and it doesn't matter if it's been tinkered with or not. Most every picture we see here has been adjusted to some extent, perhaps not as much as the labor that you went through, though.
After all, are we journalists here? But you have brought up a topic that seems to be an unspoken undercurrent; and that is that there is something inferior about a shot that has been manipulated. I don't agree with that and find the software side of the digital process to be fun and rewarding.
Any thoughts from the rest? |
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tmpchaos
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What the hell... |
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Hayward
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said by Pacrat  :
Judging by the brightness and size... my guess is either Saturn or Jupiter. Saturn's rings are supposed to visible now, making it look considerably larger!
Saturn and Jupiter are rarely that bright... my guess would be Venus... definitely not a star though.
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Weirdal
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Macy
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I just had to play around with combining the two. Turned out way too blue, but it was fun.
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mikeky
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said by urquell :
...After all, are we journalists here? But you have brought up a topic that seems to be an unspoken undercurrent; and that is that there is something inferior about a shot that has been manipulated. I don't agree with that and find the software side of the digital process to be fun and rewarding.
Any thoughts from the rest?
I agree; do what it takes to make the shot look like what you see or what you want to see. This final photo was a combination to two shots, one with a fast shutter speed to capture the moon detail and one with long shutter speed to get the barn, etc., detail. It's closer to what the eye would see than either of the two separate shots.
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Mospaw
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Thanks for the compliments and information everyone! This quote seemed to sum it all up for me: said by urquell :
After all, are we journalists here?
I am not a journalist, at least in the case of this photo. I keep forgetting I'm an artist and can do whatever I want with my stuff.
I played with it some more and liked it both in black and white and with a texturized version of the Effie action. I'll dig up the results and will try to post 'em later on today. |
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Qumahlin
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said by Hayward :
said by Pacrat :
Judging by the brightness and size... my guess is either Saturn or Jupiter. Saturn's rings are supposed to visible now, making it look considerably larger!
Saturn and Jupiter are rarely that bright... my guess would be Venus... definitely not a star though.
Yup Venus is always easily locatable due to it's position in relation to the moon
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Subaru
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ahhh.. so that was Venus that would always somehow show up in my shots. |
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