Morecambe Bay at night

Posted by Colin Inman on Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:25 pm

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1DII, 17-40 @ 33mm, iso 1600, 5 sec @ f8

Any suggestions as to the best way to recover the moon (Still using PS elements) ?

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by E.J. Peiker on Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:48 pm

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You can't recover the moon because there is nothing to recover. It is completely burned out due to there being way more dynamic range in this scene than the recording media could record. You would have had to take two shots, one exposed at sunny 16 plus one stop for the moon and another with the exposure that you used for the water and then combine them. The proper exposure at f/8 for the moon here would have been around 1/3200 (sunny 16 at f/8 and ISO 1600 + 1 stop). You used a 5 second exposure which is many many stops overexposed for the moon.

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