# Moon setting at dawn

**URL:** <https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/moon-setting-at-dawn/9524>\
**Category:** Image Critiques\
**Tags:** landscape\
**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/moon-setting-at-dawn/9524 "2019-10-23T16:35:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![John\_Moses](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/john_moses/32/5160_2.png) [@John\_Moses](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/John_Moses)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/moon-setting-at-dawn/9524/1 "2019-10-23T16:35:10Z")

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![_X9A1500-Edit](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/2X/1/13421b5d9c149751a353cda71fb34ad69383e477.jpeg)

### What technical feedback would you like if any?

### What artistic feedback would you like if any?

The image was about the moon setting between the two peaks. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to find a better foreground. Would this be better by cropping out the foreground and have the image start in the ocean waves?

### Pertinent technical details or techniques:

(If this is a composite, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)

Canon 5DM4 70 mm ISO 400 f/18 .3 sec  
Single exposure. Luminosity masking.

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**Author:** ![Adhika\_Lie](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/adhika_lie/32/15928_2.png) [@Adhika\_Lie](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Adhika_Lie)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/moon-setting-at-dawn/9524/2 "2019-10-23T16:45:31Z")

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John, this is such a beautiful scene. A few things:

1. I think it could use some CCW rotation
2. I would clone out the seagull on the far right side of the “horizon”
3. I would also look at the masking of the sea stack in the BG. There are some quite prominent halos especially on the right half of the image.

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**Author:** ![John\_Moses](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/john_moses/32/5160_2.png) [@John\_Moses](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/John_Moses)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/moon-setting-at-dawn/9524/3 "2019-10-23T16:49:17Z")

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Thanks Ashoka. I was a little too quick to post. Haha. I noticed the halos after I hit send. Great suggestions.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Lowe](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/michael_lowe/32/7118_2.png) [@Michael\_Lowe](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Michael_Lowe)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/moon-setting-at-dawn/9524/4 "2019-10-23T20:35:25Z")

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I will echo @Adhika_Lie’s comments. He’s usually pretty much right on.  
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