Cayman Moonset
Nov 29, 2020 07:48:50 #
Raybo
Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman
A little different take this morning. I decided to get up early and go see if I could get the moon setting instead of rising like I usually do. The stars were a pleasant surprise when I got home. Couldn't see them on the camera while I was shooting...
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Nov 29, 2020 12:32:29 #
Raybo
Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman
kpmac wrote:
I like it but why do the stars appear in front of the clouds?
Think the ones that look like that are on the very fringe of those clouds, and they were very thin. 6 sec exposure, so could be the light was able to penetrate enough to be picked up by the sensor. It was still very dark. I never saw them on the live view screen while on the beach. Had a Lee reverse gradient ND filter mounted. I know...an ND filter an hour before sunrise? Think that may be why the upper sky turned out as well as it did.
Honestly, it was more luck than skill...it was the best one of just a few out of 15-20 that turned out decent. Most of the rest were up at 20-30 second exposures, and even though they were exposed OK, that long the caused too much movement in both the clouds and moon to be useable.
Nov 29, 2020 12:36:36 #
Nov 29, 2020 17:21:13 #
Raybo
Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman
kpmac wrote:
I like it but why do the stars appear in front of the clouds?
Was puzzled by your comment so went back this afternoon to dig into it a little closer. One of these images is the unprocessed/uncropped jpeg of the original raw file in the original post. The other is an image taken +/-1 minute later, with the only difference being a 13s exposure rather than 6s. That's why the boat is so fuzzy in the second one.
You can see in the later photo, a lot of the foreground clouds have dissipated. Guessing they were just on the verge of that.
God forbid anyone would replace the sky for any kind of Cayman astronomical set. That would be tantamount to sacrilege in my opinion. I see people post these on FB with the saturation and vibrance cranked all the way up, and those just make me sad...
And then a cropped image of one of my original intents for going out this morning.
Thanks to all for looking and commenting.
Nov 30, 2020 07:16:56 #
Stunning image! It also reminds those of us facing winter in North America of why we love your part of the world.
Nov 30, 2020 07:31:48 #
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Nov 30, 2020 10:38:58 #
I might have gone a different way compositionally, but this is quite beautiful, Raybo
Nov 30, 2020 11:42:12 #
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