Photos from Kevin Thurk Photography.
Nice picture of a male Snowy.
The photographer noted this is a “focus stacked image,” which means one shot had the owl as the focal point, and the other, the moon, and then they got combined.
Bonus pic
Great photo even if it is a stacked image
He also posted this one, which I didn’t think is stacked.
Does the stacking make it look too fake? I didn’t think I would have noticed if he wouldn’t have said in his post.
To have both in focus does make it obvious it’s an edit, yeah. Pretty much any photo where you see a near object and a in detail far object like the moon is a composite photo.
To get really detailed photos of the moon, you’re more than likely taking hundreds of individual photos of the moon, stacking those (using software) and then compositing with another image.
This is an image I took which is actually about ~650 images of the moon through a telescope using a DLSR
Something similar to this composited onto another image would be a focus stack (like a tree or any other near object).
Generally, both images are taken at the same time, place, direction, etc. - so I don’t really see it as “Fake” just more like an edit, which most photos are anyways to some degree.
This is really cool! I didn’t think I knew you did things like this. Do you post them anywhere?
I suppose it would stand out much more to you since it’s something you have experience in.
Thanks! And no, not on Lemmy/Fediverse. Been a year or so since I broke my telescope and haven’t gotten around to getting the part I need to fix it. Maybe once I do that I’ll post some
