Moon's Nebula

These two Images, I call it The Moon's Nebula. Critique the crap out of it. Trying to find a balance between the noise and softness. Anyone want to take a crack at it? PM me and I'll send you the RAW files.

Hand Held
60D
EF 70-200 f/4 IS
FL: 200mm
ISO: 6400
Shooting Mode: Aperture Priority
Av: 4.0
Tv: 1/320
Metering Mode: Spot
EC: +2/3
Not Cropped

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I like the colours and textures in the image. May be you should try with the moon off centre....

vk2gwk wrote in post #16475140
I like the colours and textures in the image. May be you should try with the moon off centre....

I added very little color Luminance and left the Saturation Neutral in LR, most of the color was already there. I increased the Darkness 2/3 a stop, added a little Contrast and added a little NR.

I hope to get the opportunity again to try a off center shot as I never seen the Clouds lit up with Color by the Moon before. Maybe I never tried looking, but I'll pay more attention now...............

Chief_10Beers wrote in post #16475200
I added very little color Luminance and left the Saturation Neutral in LR, most of the color was already there. I increased the Darkness 2/3 a stop, added a little Contrast and added a little NR.

I hope to get the opportunity again to try a off center shot as I never seen the Clouds lit up with Color by the Moon before. Maybe I never tried looking, but I'll pay more attention now...............

GAH I tried for an hour a week ago to get this same shot, and I just couldn't do it without blowing out the moon. Nice work!

kacebelle wrote in post #16475297
GAH I tried for an hour a week ago to get this same shot, and I just couldn't do it without blowing out the moon. Nice work!

I used Spot Metering and +2/3 EC, then in LR, I reduced the exposure by -0.66...............

Drop the moon from the first one into the second one and print it. I like the texture texture and color on the second shot, but the moon itself is blurry.

Rad

Radtech1 wrote in post #16476406
Drop the moon from the first one into the second one and print it. I like the texture texture and color on the second shot, but the moon itself is blurry.

Rad

It's burry because of the Clouds, there was nothing I could do about that. It was a Partly to Mainly Cloudy Night. The Moon was in and out PDQ...............

Chief_10Beers wrote in post #16476440

Radtech1 wrote in post #16476406
Drop the moon from the first one into the second one and print it. I like the texture texture and color on the second shot, but the moon itself is blurry.

Rad

It's burry because of the Clouds, there was nothing I could do about that. It was a Partly to Mainly Cloudy Night. The Moon was in and out PDQ...............

"Nothing you could do."???

You can drop the moon from the first shot into the second sky and have one excellent composite shot, instead of two shots both of which could be better. (The moon in the first shot would be benefited by a more dynamic sky, second shot needs a moon with better definition. Between the two you have everything - now just put them together.)

Rad

Radtech1 wrote in post #16486574
"Nothing you could do."???

You can drop the moon from the first shot into the second sky and have one excellent composite shot, instead of two shots both of which could be better. (The moon in the first shot would be benefited by a more dynamic sky, second shot needs a moon with better definition. Between the two you have everything - now just put them together.)

Rad

All I have is DPP and LR5.2 . I might be wrong but I don't think you can "Photochop" with the afore mentioned Programs. Even if they did, I don't know how to do that...............