Landscape Image of the Week for the week ending Sept. 20th, 2013: Gail Bisson - Moonrise over Long Island

[Daniel Cadieux]

Congratulations Gail!

I have never posted in Landscapes before so here goes!
Everything I did here is opposite to what landscapes photogs do but I still like it.
Canon 1DX
F 600mm and 1.4X
ISO 1600
SS 1/200 F 5.6 and handheld! As you can tell I was taking pics of shorebirds and then this beautiful moon came up and all my other gear was in the car 1/2 mile away.
PP: Slight crop, did the usual "bird" PP ie. reduced noise in the sky, slight adjustments to levels, selected the sky and increased saturation by 15 in photoshop, DE on the moon at 8% and then sharpened the JPEG.
Feel free to throw eggs at this! I am tough!!
As landscape photogs how would you have taken this shot? What lens? What ISO and F value with and without tripod. Remember I was handholding.
All comments and critiques are learned from and appreciated with thanks,
Gail

[Diane Miller]

Wonderful image -- congratulations!

[Grace Scalzo]

Congrats, Gail. That sliver of moon has so much dimension and the colors are so dramatic.