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Low light shot on MFT camera.

Took this shot of the crescent moon reflected in some water a the base of a rock during low tide last week (Dillon Beach CA). It was an unplanned shot, I'd put the camera away for the day as it was pretty dark by this time. Micro 4/3 cameras are not known for their low light capabilities so I rarely ever look for night shots. But as we were exploring the beach rocks and tide pools during a big minus tide I came across this nice pool and rock with the moon reflection and just a hint of color left in the sky. I decided that I had to try and grab a quick shot.

With more planning and fewer distractions (read kids splashing in the reflection pool) I think I could have found some better compositions here, but I'm really surprised by how well this turned out for low light on MFT. Post processed in Luminar 2018.

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David Medeiros You've just move to the front of the class..

For the composition, my only real notes would be to try and fit the whole pool in, and it may be worth trying to get a better vantage point, try to fit the whole reflection in if you can. If you go back, I think you'd be better off with some interesting clouds at sunset or sunrise rather than the moon. Moons always look amazing in real life, but unless you're blending exposures or composing them in, they rarely work out as well in photography.

A nice quick grab though, you've found a nice location to work with. I hope you can go back soon and improve on this! Good luck!

Yeah, like I said this was a quick grab, not intended to be astral photography. I would have liked to center the moon over the high points in the rock and reflection by moving to the R and up a bit, but was constrained by the mob of kids off frame to the L playing in the sand. The subject for me was the pool and rocks below a faint pink and purple evening sky.

The real point of posting this was to show MFT or APSC camera users that you can do SOME night photography and get decent results in color and low noise depending on the amount of light etc (this was very late blue hour, not quite pitch black but pretty dark).