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By: How to Photograph the Moon (With 10 Great Examples) | Light Stalking

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By: Jodie's Camera Straps

Jodie's Camera Straps — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:52:50 +0000

Beautiful moon shots!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:53:45 +0000

Yeah, I don’t know how I sleep at night. ;)

By: David

David — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:42:15 +0000

I agree also that these are amazing “photos.” However, not only are most of these manipulated beyond anything remotely realistic, there are a couple that couldn’t even be shot and pasted into a picture without 3d graphics. While beautiful, the title of the blog is “moon photos.” It’s a little deceiving.

By: Aggie Villanueva

Aggie Villanueva — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:08:04 +0000

I totally agree. Just last week I went on a full moon shoot in Ghost Ranch, NM. As magical as it is in person, it doesn’t always translate well in lens. I had to use manipulation, but came out with some shots I believe will sell well. Most of us don’t care if it’s for real. In my photo art I stress that I use PS and post processing to allow others to see life as I see it, not as my camera sees it.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:04:23 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly with dcclark here. I have always found the backlash against photoshop to be completely misplaced. Photoshop really only does things that can also be done in a darkroom.

For example, everyone probably knows James Nachtwey’s famous photo of the child in the street in Chechnya (his face from eye level up with the bombed out street as the background). If you watch the documentary “War Photographer” you get a bit of an idea about how much darkroom “manipulation” that photo actually had. Yet, I don’t think many people would call “fake” on that photo.

Now maybe there are degrees of manipulation and in an editorial or journalistic context there are probably good points to be made, but in the realm of artistic photography, I really don’t see a huge issue.

By: dcclark

dcclark — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:29:52 +0000

Not to mention that it’s virtually impossible to get a good “moon photo” without manipulation — if you can see the moon, you probably need a long shutter speed to see anything else — and then the moon will be blown out. There’s nothing wrong with photo manipulation!

By: admin

admin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:41:31 +0000

I have to agree with Jenny on this one. I mean, in photography if we discard “manipulations” , then we discard a huge portion of the most famous photos in history.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:34:02 +0000

Maybe so, Ilan, but they are stunning nonetheless!