Tonights Crescent and a Question

First, La Luna (40D + 300mm f/2.8L IS + 2x TC) Approx a 30% Crop
1/30 @ f/8 ISO 100 .. Tripod, Release and MLU

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Good question, and I would like to know this myself. Great shot by the way.

Great shot.

You'll need to blow out the illuminated portion to capture Earthshine.

http://i3.photobucket.​com …Photography/cre​smnhaz.jpg

I've seen composites of a standard exposure and the blown out version layered in PS.

OUTLAW PHOTO II wrote in post #7226713
Good question, and I would like to know this myself. Great shot by the way.

Thanks...

Nighthound wrote in post #7226901
Great shot.

You'll need to blow out the illuminated portion to capture Earthshine.

http://i3.photobucket.​com …Photography/cre​smnhaz.jpg

I've seen composites of a standard exposure and the blown out version layered in PS.

Hey Steve...

Thanks. I figured maybe I wasn't pushing it hard enough. Chalk up another one for the amazing human eye. The full disc of the moon was definately visible but not capturable with any sort of balance against the illuminated portion.

Try, try, try again!

Here's one where I got the earthshine, taken for the conjunction of the moon with Venus and Jupiter last December. The exposure was 1 second at f/7.1, ISO 1600. As you see, the crescent is heavily blown.

Thanks for that Mark...

Definately strikes me now as a job for exposure blending.