Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2 seconds an amazingly long exposure for the fast moving moon. The blur is plainly evident in the image even quite small. http://forums.popphoto.com/showthread.php?338537-Moon-minimum-shutter-speed On 3/16/15 5:13 AM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote: > Got to say Howard that I for one like it...might have trimmed a few branches > on the extreme left, but... I think they should have gone pretty much with > your take. But then that is Editors for you. Peter On 15/03/15 20:03, > Howard Ritter wrote: > Last October I took some nice photos of the fully > eclipsed Moon setting towards trees low in the west. It was as the sky was > just beginning to be light enough that the sky was a deep, dark blue in an > exposure that captured the Moon nicely, but not so bright that the exposure > would have to be too short to capture stars as well or so bright that the > trees in the foreground would be illuminated. Here?s a link to my original > photo: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Blood+Moon/Blood+Moon+in+Stars.jpg.h > tml > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Blood+Moon/Blood+Moon+in+Stars.jpg. > html> Please view full. > > I think it?s an attractive composition, and it > nicely captures something not often seen in astroimages?five distance > scales: > the tree, the sky, the Moon, Uranus (brightest point of light to the left > of > the Moon), and the stars. I submitted it to S&T noting these aspects of the > image, both of which require inclusion of much more than the Moon to > appreciate. The photo, or a small part of it, will be published in the May > issue. The issue hasn?t been released yet, and there?s no link to the > image, > but I got a pre-publication copy because my photo was chosen for > publication. > > I was surprised to find it cropped down to just a 2 x 2" > ?head shot? of the Moon, with barely any surrounding sky or sense of its > color, and no tree, Uranus, or stars. Taken with a 400mm zoom, this image > was > not meant to be a detailed view of the eclipsed face of the Moon, but > rather > was a study of the eclipsed Moon low in the sky in a field that included > terrestrial, planetary, and stellar objects as well. It?s a composition > that, > esthetically and scientifically, works only if the whole is present. > Cropped > down to a passport photo of the Moon, it?s too low-res and pedestrian to be > worth publishing, IMHO. > > I?m certainly flattered, and grateful to S&T for > giving me my first magazine image publication, but disappointed in the way > they chose to do it. Am I being too critical? Or is this just another > example > of the eternal gulf between "content creators" and editors? > > ?howard > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users > Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/