Moonscape Blue Hour

24mm · f/11 · 6.0 sec · ISO 100

Blue hour at moonscape overlook in Utah. The photo is a panoramic composite of two 24mm photos, which I took with a shift lens and were stitched together in post processing.

11 Comments

Juergen, ? what was wrong with the other "Moonscape Sunset" Make up your mind, don't leave it up to others, you have to please yourself ... then post those.

Hi Paul, while I agree with what you said I am not quite sure I understand. There was nothing wrong with the sunset version. This is just a different photo taken at a different time under different light conditions (plus pano). If possible I try to return to locations to capture a portfolio of different weather and light situations.

Juergen, now I can see some very subtle compositional differences.
General within my shooting and editing style I see images that are so similar the where taking on the same shoot not different sessions.

I think I get it now. This is not a modified sunset version. The sunset was about an hour earlier, the blue is real, not added. The sunset was shot with 17mm. This one is two 24mm frames stichted together. I used the tilt/shift lens. The composite is not cropped. It is the exact overlap of two 2:3 frames.

Cool, never used a tilt/shift lens, other than a view camera ;). Your use of one here I guess solved a lot of problems with distortion. Go job!

Juergen, congratulations on your Photo 9f the Day!

Congratulations on the PotD selection!
Such a very nice vantage point to shoot from! The camera's view is simply EPIC!

Thank you for the like, Frank. Unfortunately not everyone would agree. Was just rated by #11 as 2

I have noticed the average on photos I've rated --- there are some tough critics out there, only those don't seem to ever leave comment on how to improve or what they thought as to why it deserved "their rating." Sad face for them :(

Have you ever thought about a coffee table book, "Our Otherworldly Earth - Images by Juergen M Zeidler" ?
Happy face for you :D