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Me in the Moon Photograph by Joseph G Holland

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Sharon Mau

Sharon Mau

.. love your description . it is an amazing self portrait . congratulations Joseph . your beautiful work of art is featured in Square Format :)

Joseph G Holland

Joseph G Holland

In answer to Valia: Because it is nearly impossible to get a perfect exposure of both the bright moon and the dimly lite stars in the background in the same exposure (at least at sea level) I used several exposures. Several of just the moon at 1/8 second f 5.6 ISO 1000, Two of just the stars without the moon 1 second f 5.6 ISO 4000 . In photoshop layers I pasted the moon photo onto the star filled sky photo sized it to fit and erased any stars that showed up on the moon's surface. In a third layer I pasted a photo of myself onto the moon surface and adjusted the transparency to 10% and erased the outline of my face so just the eyes nose and mouth faintly displayed on the moons surface. What takes only 10 minutes on a computer with image editing software today was nearly impossible 45 years ago when I got my first camera. (Minolta SRT101) That's when all of the editing for a photograph took place before the exposure and then you had to wait for two weeks for your film to get processed to see if your pictures "came out". If you had dark room training as I did you could accomplish nearly the same thing with the layering of various negatives, burning, dodging and cropping on an enlarger. But that took hours and hours and was very expensive. It was known as "trick photography".

VALIA BRADSHAW

VALIA BRADSHAW

The perfect symbole for that night!!! Wonderful capture!!! How did you do this???

Liz Vernand

Liz Vernand

Wow!!

Joseph G Holland replied:

Thank you for your comments.

Kenneth M  Kirsch

Kenneth M Kirsch

Incredible Joseph! It's like you stepped off the planet to get this shot. Your images are all remarkable. Best... Ken

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