44 - Life Moves In
Canon 5DmkII, 20mm, iso 200, f/11, 3 images -1.5, 0, +1.5
Nature loves to fill a vacuum, it is its nature.
96 - Titan - Largest Moon of Saturn
Canon 5DmkII, 16-35mm at 16mm, iso100, 1, 4 & 15 sec at f/13.0, Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found. Titan is the sixth ellipsoidal moon from Saturn. Frequently described as a planet-like moon, Titan has a diameter roughly 50% larger than Earth's moon and is 80% more massive. It is the 2nd largest moon in the Solar System, after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and it is larger by volume than the smallest planet, Mercury, although only half as massive. Titan was the first known moon of Saturn, discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Titan is primarily composed of water ice and rocky material. Much as with Venus until the Space Age, the dense, opaque atmosphere prevented understanding of Titan's surface until new information accumulated with the arrival of the Cassini-Huygens mission in 2004, in...
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Bob
That's a neat concept that would make a great photo project.
I like the photos. In the first one, I think the transition from the bright sky to the dark ground is a little abrupt. (almost as if you used a hard-split ND filter instead of a graduated ND filter)
This kinda scene can be blended very easily in Photoshop using layers and masks. Just put the lightest and the darkest shots into one file (two layers), and then feather one on top of the other with a feathered selection of 250 pixels. You can fine-tune the feathering by painting onto the layer mask with the brush tool.
I can explain better with diagrams, but I can't post that here :-) Look on my articles page on my website. Down at the bottom, there's "Manual HDR...". That article shows the simple process of using a feathered selection to blend two exposures. With a little fine-tuning, it works well.
http://www.texbrick.com/photo/notes
For scenes like this, I usually use this simple technique as opposed to more complex blending techniques and/or using an HDR program.
Anyway, just my $0.02.