This image shows the difficulty of trying to keep detail in a very bright moon, and a very dark foreground.
Even using a 3 stop ND grad filter I couldn't get any detail in the moon so late after sunset. What I should have done was take this shot when the moon was much lower in the sky, with correspondingly less contrast between the moon and the land.
Even so, I like this image for its stark graphic quality, and the way the moonlight reflects off the calm sea.
Filename - moon full 05.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 105mm
Exposure - 4secs @ f11, ISO100
Location - Colwyn Bay, North Wales
This image - 595x800px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Tripod, mirror lockup and cable release used to prevent camera shake
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