What technical feedback would you like if any? Is an HDR series the only way to enable getting the dynamic colors available for the daytime moon and the scenery in the shots? Since this was not possible - we were white water rafting down the river too quickly, not sure what other options I could have tried. Thank you for all your input!
What artistic feedback would you like if any? As we floated between the canyons, we had the opportunity to watch the moon set multiple times and on both sides of the canyon walls. This gave me great options to practice multiple camera settings. These are really not that special, but they were good practice.
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LUMIX D7 mirrorless, 1/500 sec f8.0 ISO 320/ Leica DG 50-200mm F2.8 lens 144mm
LUMIX D7 mirrored, , 1/500 sec f8.0 ISO 800 / Leica DG 50-200mm f2.8 lens 200mm
Hand-held while white water rafting and trying to avoid getting the camera/lens wet!
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Yes EJ, getting a well exposed moon and daylight on the landscape is a challenge. You can take Paul B.'s approach of using a split ND filter to hold back the moon and sky, you can use careful timing, or you can combine two or more exposures. The full moon has the same reflectivity as a fully lit mid-day landscape with the sun coming over your shoulder. In film days, the rule of thumb was stop down to f/16 and a proper exposure of the full moon would be to use a shutter speed of 1/ISO setting. With today’s cameras you can be off either + or - a full stop and still get see good details. You can use that rule of thumb to estimate how bright the moon will be based on what you meter says is the correct ss for the shot. In your first shot, the rule of thumb would say f/8 and 1/(2*iso) --> f/8 and 1/640 s, which is pretty close to what you used. Your moon there is nicely exposed with good detail in the bright parts and decently white (although the moon could possible have stood a bit more exposure to get it to a similar brightness as the brightest rocks, but that would have overexposed the brightest rocks… In your second post, I’d say that the moon also looks very good, it’s noticeably less bright than the land. Both shots look very good with a fine mix of moon and rocks.
