I looked out the window this morning before I had planned to get up and saw the moon peeking in and out of the clouds. I decided to try an HDR despite the fact that the clouds were moving. I had other moon shots tha are far more clear but I liked how this one turned out. Tricky doing an HDR with something moving. Any tips from the pros?
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fabulous moonshot - love the clouds around too - great capture. I tend to HDR with a single shot if things are moving too fast - turns it into a tonemapped shot
Wow I love it! The clouds look amazing and it's awesome being able to make out the detail on the moon as well.
The only thing I'd say to maybe try to fix is that with the moving subject I think you got a couple small curved bits of light on the bottom right of the moon. I'm not sure what software you have, but if you have photoshop I would just use the lasso tool to draw around those and do a content-aware fill. If that doesn't work, you could try a spot healing brush tool to get rid of it. If all else fails, you can do the old fashioned way and copy and paste another part of the image, then use a mask to just put some dark cloudy bits on top of those lines. It may still be visible on close inspection, but it'll reduce how noticeable it is enough that it may not matter.
Also, with photoshop, you could manually combine the photos using an exposure for the moon and an exposure for the clouds, and use a mask to paint in the moon onto the cloud photo. That's probably an easier way to do it which would also give you more control, as you can manually edit the different parts of the photo separately.
In case you didn't do this when you were shooting the images, I'd use auto-bracketing (this might not be sufficient for the brightness difference between the moon and the clouds) and have your camera on continuous shooting mode, and be sure to take the pictures as close back to back as possible.
I Love this Jane..and i am sorry but i know nothing about HDR and combining pic's Not there yet !! lol...looks to me by the above explanation i may never get there!!! lol...this is Beautiful, so clear and cloudy~ lol...FAV!
The only thing I'd say to maybe try to fix is that with the moving subject I think you got a couple small curved bits of light on the bottom right of the moon. I'm not sure what software you have, but if you have photoshop I would just use the lasso tool to draw around those and do a content-aware fill. If that doesn't work, you could try a spot healing brush tool to get rid of it. If all else fails, you can do the old fashioned way and copy and paste another part of the image, then use a mask to just put some dark cloudy bits on top of those lines. It may still be visible on close inspection, but it'll reduce how noticeable it is enough that it may not matter.
Also, with photoshop, you could manually combine the photos using an exposure for the moon and an exposure for the clouds, and use a mask to paint in the moon onto the cloud photo. That's probably an easier way to do it which would also give you more control, as you can manually edit the different parts of the photo separately.
In case you didn't do this when you were shooting the images, I'd use auto-bracketing (this might not be sufficient for the brightness difference between the moon and the clouds) and have your camera on continuous shooting mode, and be sure to take the pictures as close back to back as possible.
I wish my moon shot had some clouds, but it was completely clear here.