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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > The Dorkroom > Landscapes: making rocks look sexy
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thefreshmaker
Jul 7, 2005

BeastOfExmoor posted:

I've been really digging these recent shots you've been posting. I recall you posting a lot of long-exposure beach shots before so it's interesting to see you take a lot of that into a different subject. In fact, if you look at these three they all really draw my eyes to the close parts of the image first and then move to take them in their context.

Here's a few from a recent hike I took. I'm not sure if it's my monitor or the fact that I was using a polarizing filter, but something is really bugging me about the color and detail in these shots, especially on Flickr.









The blue in the last one looks oversaturated and artificial, but the color looks good on the rest. I especially like the one of the observation hut. It's something different. An aspect of hiking and landscapes that's always there, but rarely shown. Where was this?

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thefreshmaker
Jul 7, 2005

TheAngryDrunk posted:

Does anyone know what sort of equipment/software I would need to track where the moon is going to be at a certain time and location.

For example, let's say I have a shot in mind that I want to take, but I want to know when the moon will be in the shot.

As an added bonus, is there a way to know what time of year the moon will be the brightest/largest in that same shot.

I found this site by googling "moon angle." It will generate a table of altitudes, azimuths and percent illumination of the moon for different times in a given U.S. city.

http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astro...vices/alt-az-us

That, plus this sunrise/sunset/moonrise/moonset tool that fenner posted a while back should help.

http://stephentrainor.com/tools

As far as I know, the apparent size and brightness of a full moon doesn't change much throughout the year, but it can appear larger when it's closer to the horizon. The distance between the moon and earth doesn't change enough to make a big difference in the moon's apparent diameter, and if it did, it should happen monthly. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

thefreshmaker fucked around with this message at Jul 20, 2010 around 16:50

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thefreshmaker
Jul 7, 2005


 SAD cross-post.
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thefreshmaker
Jul 7, 2005



Dumb question directed at the community in general: In a lot of your guys' photos, the sky and atmosphere look incredibly clear. Are you reducing haze in post? Or is that just from the conditions when you took the shot? If you're doing it in post, how? If it's the conditions at the time, any advice on how to predict haze-free atmosphere? Is it just humidity?

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