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01Ryan10 wrote:
That is awesome. Looks like a very, very well done composite, but I want to assume a focus stacked 600mm lens, and you're actually standing 50 feet away from the rocks. lol.
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Actually I'm 4' from the rocks, with some light painting done to help illuminate the rocks.
jforkner wrote:
I like the foreground, but the Moon is out-of-proportion & too large IMO.
Jack
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I respect your opinion, and when I first composited the moon in, I had it larger. My intent was surreal, but I did resize it down a bit. Yes, it's still many order of magnitudes too large for exact reality. It was fun being experimental with this, and admittedly, I'm not 100% comfortable posting this type of image in this particular forum. 500px, flickr, etc... I have no qualms, but I do recognize that this forum is a bit different in the expectations.
Mark Metternich wrote:
Never one to follow the rules, and I LOVE that about your work! Thank you!  I love this. I'm glad work like this seems to be gaining more acceptance on this forum. I remember some years back one might get banned for such work.
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Thanks Mark! As I mentioned above, I know this toes the line on acceptable here. I feel if we're honest, transparent, and if the image is on a very high level of quality, craftsmanship and vision, it has a place. Even if that place provides healthy debate. Sometimes I wonder how many images have been posted here with skies replaced, auroras added and merged, coastal areas swapped, things cloned out, etc...
matthewsaville wrote:
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Thanks !
My appreciation is more in the direction of disclosure than acceptance. I think we have been well into an age of acceptance for quite a while now.
Composite artwork has always found a strong audience somewhere, including on FM for many years. However in many cases it was undisclosed, and any folks who asked questions or mentioned that they didn't enjoy the image as much, (upon discovering that it was an unrealistic composite) ...all received even MORE flak for not being open-minded.
Now, (thanks to acceptance I suppose) disclosure is not such a delicate land mine, so more photographers are mentioning up-front when they use different focal lengths to create their work. That is a great thing, because it helps other photographers understand what the scene looked like in real life, and what the artist's vision was.
To me, I enjoy it as sci-fi fantasy artwork more than photography. But, as a huge sci-fi fan, that's certainly not meant to be an insult. It simply reminds me more of a movie set for the next Star Wars movie, than of the real planet earth and its 238,900mi-distant moon. ;-)
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As a sci-fi fan as well, I wish the moons appearance was like this in real life! Although, our coastal tides might be a bit more dramatic 
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