[Fangman]

Taken this evening - misty moon over Ely Cathedral (lowered) in 'shop.

[VeddieEdder]

Cool idea for a shot. Is it just me, or is there a black box around the moon?

[Sonsey]

Originally Posted by VeddieEdder

Cool idea for a shot. Is it just me, or is there a black box around the moon?

It's not just you mate

[P-E]

Cool idea.

I might have favoured just putting the moon to the left........I can clearly see the black box too.

[Steve]

Like the others have said, its a good shot but with you moving the moon lower down into the frame the square that surrounds it has a darker (black) background than the blue where you have placed it. To correct this easily, when in 'shop go to levels and then select the black eye dropper tool and click on the blue sky right next to the outside of the black box that you pasted in, this will then alter all the colours of the picture relative to that point, ensuring it is black there and matched across the whole photo.

Also as P-E has mentioned, positioning the moon more to the left side would also offer a more balanced shot as it would offset the tower on the building.

Hope that helps

[MickB]

Thanks for the tip Steve.

[Fangman]

Thanks guys - done in a few minutes after taking - recovering from having charge of a 21mth grandson!

This was one from November

[Dave]

Spectacular shot !!! Great timing to catch them all at their peak. How did you suss the exposure for these ?

[Fangman]

Multiple exposures of about 2sec overlaid the image of the cathedral and the first firework. Rough selection of the burst and then the new layer each time as "lighten" did the trick. It at one time had the moon in as well - ut it cluttered it up.

[Dave]

Very clever

[Fangman]

Now sorted - different pair of exposures - at full 300 = 1.5 converter for both.

[Dave]

Much better, although to make it perfect do you think the moon has to be muted slightly & a very slight Gaussian blur to it, to fit in with rest of shot ? Not sure, what do you / others think ?