Moon Rise...

Jonathan Herbert has added a photo to the pool:

I took this stunning moon rise shot from the balcony of our hotel room whilst we were on holiday. The shot was helped as we were on the top floor of the hotel and i could get a good angle for the shot.

I had to use a very long shutter speed to get this shot as it as very dark. I think that the shutter speed was something like 120 seconds. To get the moon to look not over exposed i took a shot of it with a very Fast shutter speed and then fixed it in the post processing.

Camera Details

Camera Nikon D90
Exposure 114
Aperture f/38.0
Focal Length 112 mm
ISO Speed 100

Post-Processing Steps

I used Photoshop to bring in the two images the long exposure and the single exposure of the moon. Then I ran the long exposure through topaz adjust to correct the exposure and the brightness. I also used topaz denoise to get rid of the noise in the image. Once the background image was cleaned up I put the good moon shot on top of the moon that was blurred and over exposed from the long exposure and cleaned up the image. Once all this was done i used groups and adjustment layers to get the picture looking like it does. Then I exported it to a jpeg.

This picture was Explored and was at position #497 on May 10, 2011. The first time one of my pictures was featured in Explore.