The Official Shoot the Moon Thread

Thanks, Charles....

Roy A. Rust wrote in post #17996301
I finally found the photos I took of the "Supermoon" eclipse from September 27 of last year.
Taken with my Nikon D5200, with the kit 55-200mm lens at 200mm, on a standard tripod.

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Very impressive

Nice sequence, Roy! Looks like you got the entire thing start to finish. Not an easy thing to do. I've always had clouds disrupt these blood moon eclipses, except for one time two years ago mid-April - and that was staying up until 5:30am. Worth it though, isn't it?

Those vertical white lines are distracting to me. Much simpler image without; the sequence is self explanatory either way.

DavidWatts wrote in post #17997298
Nice sequence, Roy! Looks like you got the entire thing start to finish. Not an easy thing to do. I've always had clouds disrupt these blood moon eclipses, except for one time two years ago mid-April - and that was staying up until 5:30am. Worth it though, isn't it?

Those vertical white lines are distracting to me. Much simpler image without; the sequence is self explanatory either way.

I agree, I don't like them either, but didn't have any way to combine the photos without the lines. My Photoshop program won't work with Windows 10, so I just overlapped each photo and captured the image from the screen.

If you have any suggestions about getting rid of the lines, please share them with me...


Edit: Well, I think I found a way to get rid of the lines. Took a lot of messing with the image without Photoshop, but I think it looks better. Thanks for prompting me to work on it.

Roy A. Rust wrote in post #17996301
I finally found the photos I took of the "Supermoon" eclipse from September 27 of last year.
Taken with my Nikon D5200, with the kit 55-200mm lens at 200mm, on a standard tripod.

Roy A. Rust wrote in post #17997382
I agree, I don't like them either, but didn't have any way to combine the photos without the lines. My Photoshop program won't work with Windows 10, so I just overlapped each photo and captured the image from the screen.

If you have any suggestions about getting rid of the lines, please share them with me...


Edit: Well, I think I found a way to get rid of the lines. Took a lot of messing with the image without Photoshop, but I think it looks better. Thanks for prompting me to work on it.

Roy A. Rust wrote in post #17997382
I agree, I don't like them either, but didn't have any way to combine the photos without the lines. My Photoshop program won't work with Windows 10, so I just overlapped each photo and captured the image from the screen.

If you have any suggestions about getting rid of the lines, please share them with me...

Edit: Well, I think I found a way to get rid of the lines. Took a lot of messing with the image without Photoshop, but I think it looks better. Thanks for prompting me to work on it.

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Very nice image and result of a great effort in display.

Unlike the other OP, the first version, by virtue of being "Unique", as I have never seen such an edit/college is totally different and very appealing to me as the subsequent version is what you commonly seen. To me lines are not distracting at all but highly synergistic though could be arranged a bit differently.

Also to point out, unlike what is expressed, this is not a complete view of the even as it is not started and ended with full moon (The only phase of moon during which eclipse happens). So to me the event is incomplete, yet that doesn't bring down or reduce the appeal.

Lastly, I am very surprise that without much knowledge of photoshop, how good you can show your images. This has to say a lot of good about the quality of original image in first place.

samsen wrote in post #17997577
Very nice image and result of a great effort in display.

Unlike the other OP, the first version, by virtue of being "Unique", as I have never seen such an edit/college is totally different and very appealing to me as the subsequent version is what you commonly seen. To me lines are not distracting at all but highly synergistic though could be arranged a bit differently.

Also to point out, unlike what is expressed, this is not a complete view of the even as it is not started and ended with full moon (The only phase of moon during which eclipse happens). So to me the event is incomplete, yet that doesn't bring down or reduce the appeal.

Lastly, I am very surprise that without much knowledge of photoshop, how good you can show your images. This has to say a lot of good about the quality of original image in first place.

Well the reason it's not the complete eclipse from fully illuminated in the east to fully illuminated in the west is because the eclipse had started before it cleared the hill/trees in the east. I had a view of it full after the eclipse, but just didn't think I needed to add a full moon at the end.

I'm not sure what you mean about "without much knowledge of photoshop", but since I lost the use of my older versions of Photoshop when I bought a new computer with Windows 10, I do most of my photo editing with Irfanview now, including displaying all the images at one time on the monitor, then using Irfanview's "Screen Capture" to capture the combined images - which is what caused the lines. I got rid of the lines by creating a tall, narrow box to insert text over each line, one at a time, and inserting a vertical line of lower case "L"s in the box with the background and the text set to black. I just inserted a black vertical line over the lines in the image. I'd much prefer using Photoshop, but unless/until I feel like getting a new version, I'm stuck with using my old programs that still work with 10.

^^Roy:
- My reference to your expertise in CS was only reflection of what I read, from your own lines, in another thread.

- No. Absolutely not every collage must show the entire and full event of eclipse and in fact I am not even sure what it is to be called "Right" or "Wrong". I strongly believe its part of art therefore no rules applied. How a photographer show a segment or entire process of Eclipse, is what can make image highly desirable or boarding.
Your images misses symmetry, if at all to be looked at, with a critical eye. Other than that, showing full cycle, though easy to reproduce, even if missed partly (That is a condition very common as happened to you), is neither difficult nor desirable. In fact I strongly believe the successful person is one who knows how much to show and how to put it together, that forms the Best Display. And we are referring merely about Collage of Eclipse.

- Not sure why you pushed so hard to get rid of the line was my main reply, to your last posts. Your first edit, showing the lines was "Very Unique and Nice" as is. It was something that I hadn't seen before. It was innovative to me and very appealing. But then comes "The same Ole" second version.
IMHO you made a very unique image into a very common presentation, thus the edit was a negative process rather adding anything. In otherwords, just to say the other side of experience with earlier opinion posted. Of course this is only my opinion and you are rightly entitled to your own and how you would like to show your images. In short, I would not touch the initial presentation.

- As a child I had a teacher who used to say, when a hungry person is to eat his food, he takes the spoon straight to mouth. Not to wrap his arm and forearm around his neck, to reach the mouth!!
I guess by that person's terms, you turned your spoon some 10-15 times around you neck before getting food to mouth
Not sure why you are not getting help with your incompatibility issue as I thought there is none. Its really hard to make a decent edit with the software you quoted (Beyond the very basic functions) and beside appreciating your hard work in finding a torturous remedy to your problem, I really don't see why you should have gone through all that trouble.
My first guess is that you could have easily used the "Fill" brush of your "Paint" that comes free with every Window software, ever published, just to fill the entire White columns/boarders in one click. Or at least using a black larger pen, going over all the white lines to turn them disappear...That is if your aim is not to have a masochistic remedy

But on the serious side, sorry and what is that you can't use your PS?
Even if truly any incompatibility, you are much better off with use of free CS2. I don't know if you are aware or not that as a prior photoshop customer, you are allowed to use that 10-15 year old CS2 version of photoshop (Both for Mac and PC) for free, from Adobe's site. Yes it is old. No its not missing any important function to allow you the most powerful edits. Its a lot of skin and short cuts that came thereafter, otherwise the entire hours power of engine, exists in that older free version. Nothing similar to software you currently use (That was actually & originally build to provide only "PictureView" on a pc). So I strongly advise you to a least use the CS2 for now (Find the free download from Adobe by a simple Yahoo/google search) and stop torturing yourself.

Roy A. Rust wrote in post #17997382
I agree, I don't like them either, but didn't have any way to combine the photos without the lines. My Photoshop program won't work with Windows 10, so I just overlapped each photo and captured the image from the screen.

If you have any suggestions about getting rid of the lines, please share them with me...

Edit: Well, I think I found a way to get rid of the lines. Took a lot of messing with the image without Photoshop, but I think it looks better. Thanks for prompting me to work on it.

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so much better
awesome effort

Moonrise over Brisbane city last Thursday morning.

I have also posted a nice timelapse of this here:
https://vimeo.com/1655​08479

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

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S.R.M. wrote in post #17998473
Moonrise over Brisbane city last Thursday morning.

I have also posted a nice timelapse of this here:
https://vimeo.com/1655​08479

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/GVrE​fV Moonrise over Brisbane city (small) by Stephen Mudge, on Flickr

Nice shot

the1manchaos wrote in post #17998479
Nice shot

Thanks very much!

Something different

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rubmifer wrote in post #18000091
Something different

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To the moon by Bram Van Der Stichelen, on Flickr

Great colour in the contrail!

The thin crescent Moon was sitting in the middle of the Hyades star cluster in the constellation Taurus last night. This is the closest Open Cluster to the Earth, approximately 153 light years away.

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S.R.M. wrote in post #18000288
Great colour in the contrail!

Thx! Credits to the setting sun for those colours though.