Cayman Moonrise: Last post was the moon setting to the west early last Sunday morning. This one is it rising in the east a day or two later. Pretty long exposure. I'm reasonably happy...

Raybo Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman

Last post was the moon setting to the west early last Sunday morning. This one is it rising in the east a day or two later.

Pretty long exposure. I'm reasonably happy with it other than the moon trail though the cloud. Tried to clean it up a couple different ways but just seem to make it worse. Is it bothersome, or not really worth messing with?

Still trying to develop a style.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

(as is)

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

I like it just like this!

OleMe Loc: Montgomery Co., MD

Nice pic. I'm curious: did you transplant the sky? I see white thrunthe trees and a bit of fringing at the tree line. Love the colors.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Very cool shot!

I also noticed the white behind the trees.

Re cleaning up moon trail, if it does bother you, use the clone tool. Zoom in very close, then do tiny bits at a time, borrowing from the clouds beside. Vary the opacity and do more than one application, if needed.

Raybo Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman

OleMe wrote:

Nice pic. I'm curious: did you transplant the sky? I see white thrunthe trees and a bit of fringing at the tree line. Love the colors.

Nope...that is what it was. The damn mosquitos were horrendous...i forgot to spray before I walked down, so ended up setting things up and running around (away) and just coming back to the camera long enough to activate the shutter. Paying for it on my ankles today...

I "might" replace the sky in some photos, but as I noted in my last post, I would never do that with anything I ever took here. We have lots of high humidity, haze and clouds, so you have to be patient, but at times, the sun/moon-rises/sets can be spectacular. And the locals would know if you doctored it. Not going there...:)

Might be an artifact from the post work, but not sky replacement. May also be the reflection off the water behind the little key. The land in the distance is maybe five miles away, so at that low angle, the reflection off the water had long way to work, and may be contributing to that. That would be my guess.

This was probably end of nautical twilight, bordering on full dark. > 70-90 minutes past sunset. The fore lighting on the trees is likely the lighting from the condo complex I was in front of. It's may be 100 yards from the seawall I was on.

Sometimes you just get lucky...

Thanks for looking...

Ourspolair

This is a 30s exposure, it is surprising that the moon moved that far, but one solution would be to increase your ISO and reduce the exposure time. You seemed to be at f2.8, so not much you can do there to shorten the exposure time. You did not say what camera you used, so I am only guessing that if you went to ISO 2000 and shortened the exposure significantly, you would get less trouble from the Moon trail. Please stay well and keep on sharing - that mangrove is amazing, btw!

Raybo Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman

Linda From Maine wrote:

Re cleaning up moon trail, if it does bother you, use the clone tool.

Doesn't really bother me. I posed the query rhetorically to see if it was a "critical" issue in general. Still trying to figure this hobby out. Generally I process a lot less than these last two posts, but these two just seems to lend themselves to taking some "artistic" license.

I tend to PP to what I like, and what appears pleasing to me, but I'm also cognizant that we're not of the same cloth, and try to keep an open mind when it comes to those varied tastes.

I'll probably be printing and sending some to family and friends as gifts, so feedback has soe merit.

Thanks for the response

OleMe Loc: Montgomery Co., MD

Raybo wrote:

Nope...that is what it was. The damn mosquitos we... (show quote)

Thanks for the explanation. One made many trips to the Idaho USVI. Love the Caribbean. Never got a shot as good as yours.

/Roger

Raybo Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman

Ourspolair wrote:

This is a 30s exposure, it is surprising that the moon moved that far, but one solution would be to increase your ISO and reduce the exposure time. You seemed to be at f2.8, so not much you can do there to shorten the exposure time. You did not say what camera you used, so I am only guessing that if you went to ISO 2000 and shortened the exposure significantly, you would get less trouble from the Moon trail. Please stay well and keep on sharing - that mangrove is amazing, btw!

Canon 6D mkII, Canon 50mm f1.4 lens.

I was too, on the apparent moon movement. But I'm at a pretty low latitude (19 deg N), and twilight comes and goes pretty quick at these latitudes. Lower cusp of the sun can hit the horizon and be completely below it in 60-90 seconds.

I've been messing around with rasing the ISO in other situations, but have had issues with noise on previous outings, so wanted to keep it low. And the long exposure was a bit intentional. That "bay" is notorious for chop because of wind exposure. It's really rare for it to be even reasonably flat, and I really wanted to try to get that silky look on it.

Most people wouldn't likely notice it, but to get the reflection of the trees in front of the mangroves was a score to my mind. So this was maybe a once a year opportunity, and as noted in my reply to Linda, Mossies were almost unbearable, so ended up cutting the session shorter than I would have liked.

Thanks for the input

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Raybo wrote:

Last post was the moon setting to the west early last Sunday morning. This one is it rising in the east a day or two later.

Pretty long exposure. I'm reasonably happy with it other than the moon trail though the cloud. Tried to clean it up a couple different ways but just seem to make it worse. Is it bothersome, or not really worth messing with?

Still trying to develop a style.

ltj123 Loc: NW Wisconsin

Very nice!

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

Excellent.

tcthome Loc: NJ

Nice.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Beautiful image!