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Evaluating focus and exposure of the moon shots

Evaluating focus and exposure of the moon shots

From the course: Photographing and Assembling a Lunar Eclipse Composite

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Evaluating focus and exposure of the moon shots

After the eclipse is over, you're back home and hopefully you've gotten some decent sleep, and you've downloaded the images from the memory card to the computer, it's time to take a look at what you've got and start choosing which images to use, and then processing those to make them look their best. The first thing to do is review all the moon shots in the order in which they were taken, and evaluate the focus, as well as the exposure, in each shot. Depending on cloud cover issues that may have been a factor during the eclipse, you may need to choose alternate shots of the moon if some are a bit fuzzy due to the clouds. This is why it's always good to shoot more exposures than you'll use in the final piece. As you review the images, you'll flag the ones you plan on using for the eclipse composite sequence. So I'm using Adobe Lightroom for sorting my eclipse images. You don't need to use Lightroom for this step. You can use another program if you want to. It just needs to be a program…

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