This moon shot is nice and clear, but exposed for the highlights. I can see color tinge in the shadows. I brought your image into PS CC, and increased exposure in shadows, and added saturation. You did in fact capture the blood color. Try this on your RAW file, you may be surprised.

I used 2 stop bracket on my shots, so when you see the color you completely blow out the highlites, but HDR brings most of it it back.

I got reasonable shots with Canon 5D iv in West Chester, near Cincinnati. Used Canon 100-400 II with 1.4 extender. Min apperture was f8 so high ISO's for Blood Moon. Moon before eclipse was ISO 1250 f8, 1/80th, during eclipse 3200 ISO, F8, 0.5 sec. Serious cropping, these are just 8% of full frame, so noise an issue.

I tried sending this earlier, but could not find it, so apologies if it appears twice! Cliff

We had good view here in Cincinnati (West Chester) till around midnight, then the clouds appeared. I shot my images with 5D Mkiv, with Canon 100-400 ll and 1.4 extender.

The closeup images are only about 8% of the image sensor, so some serious cropping was required. The bright moon shot at ISO1250, 1/80th, and f8 (lens wide open less stop for telextender!). The "red/orange" moon was ISO3200 0.5sec, at f8.

The sequence was from multiple shots combined is PS CC.

I have the MkI version, and it did fail after 5 years, the ribbon was faulty. It would have cost over $400 with a Canon repair, so I opted for another well rated service and spent about 50% of the Canon estimate. The lens has been fine since then (18 months). It too is my lens used for 90% of my shooting.

I would definitely opt for version II if the prices are not much different!

Mesquite (Mosque and Cathedral) in Cordoba are awesome - a "forest" of columns with Cathedral in the center. Granada's Alhambra is amazing, be patient, I have tons of photos with no people (we visited Andalucia in 2010 - September). Granada has many sights - Cathedral is spectacular. The Alcazar in Seville, while newer ( 300 to 400 year) is wonderful, particularly it's gardens.

Malaga's Forum and Alcazar


Cordoba - La Mesquita (Mosque)


Cordoba Cathedral (inside mosque)


Lion Courtyard inside Granada's Alhambra


Nook inside Nasrid Palace - Granada Alhambra

Some photos of suggestions

Selby Abbey 14c


Fountains Abbey




Riveaux Abbey


Castle Howard - Entrance Hall


Castle Howard from the Atlas Fountain


York's Railroad museum

Selby Abbey is marvelous - just 19 miles South of York.
Beverly is a lovely town, with an awesome cathedral near York.
Fountains Abbey is wonderful and close to York, Rippon with its ancient Cathedral is very close to Fountains Abbey.
Riveaux Abbey is very interesting, and close to York.
Robin Hoods Bay, Staithes, Filey on the coast
Castle Howard is one of the finest great homes in England, and now allows photography inside!

I just purchased Aurora 2018 for PC this week. I have been using Photomatics, P/shop CC, Lightroom for HDR. Where Aurora shines is the ability to use layers and masks so you can apply effects, and controls to very specific parts of your image, rather than making effects to the overall image.

Aurora also allows you to gather and make significant changes to a single RAW image - again using layers, it can help bring to life an image with dark areas. One thing to watch if you overdo the shadows it will introduce significant noise to those areas.

I paid $79 less $10 with a coupon I found on-line earlier this week.

PS my first post so be kind! I shoot canon (5D Mk iv) mostly travel, landscapes, architecture, sports (tennis at ATP in Cincinnati, USA).