Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Moonscape
Couldn't sleep tonight, so I experimented with some photos of the moon from our window. I found it impossible to actually get both the moon and the reflection on the water to be exposed correctly in one shot... when you get the moon right, the water reflection is completely underexposed and invisible. When you get the reflection right, the moon is just a big blur of white. So I had to take two photos and superimpose them on top of each other in Photoshop.
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But it turned out so beautifully! I wonder why you can't get both . . .
ReplyDeleteI can't belive you cheated :-) But it is unbelievably perfect! Good job!
ReplyDeleteGood question! The reason you can't get both is that a camera digital sensor (or film in the old days) is not nearly as sensitive to subtle differences in light as the human eye, so it can see a much more limited range between light and dark. So, since the moon is so many times brighter than the subtle reflection on the ocean, the camera is not able to expose both correctly. Before Photoshop, a photographer could do this by either putting a graduated neutral density filter on the lens, which basically would make the top half of the lens "darker", and in turn produce the correct exposure overall. Or one could do this in the darkroom by exposing one image over the other while blocking part of each image (dodging).
ReplyDeletegorgeous vicky!!!!
ReplyDeletei need photoshop classes by vicky :) there is so much i want to learn.
still want to come see you!!!