Another Moon shot.

Last night's moon inbetween the clouds. DA* 300 plus 1.4 TC f6.3 1/160th sec ISO 400, (no Looney Eleven this time) K1 mkII. PP'd in RT with massive crop 100% ? file size only 416kB and that was bumped up with the copyright text! I tweeked the contrast down a bit and preferred the colours more than the brightness, any comments welcome.

Sorry but to me it doesn't look that sharp, not sure it's the processing but this is one I did in 2010 with the K20D, F*300mm and 1.7x adapter and in my eyes it's a lot sharper. I don't think it's a good idea to lower the contrast on the moon, I always up it a little.

Interesting to see both photos in the same thread. Putting them both big and flipping between them, I can't honestly say that either is better than the other. Instead, they each have a different 'feel'. The sharper, mono one (second) one feels as if the moon is so close you can almost touch it. The softer, subtly coloured one (first) feels as if the moon is far away in the distance. Possibly due to the way we judge terrestrial distances from how objects appear.

So thanks to both for posting, It's made me think and that's a good thing .

Steve

I suppose it depends on what the photographer is looking for, photography is such a subjective thing at the end of the day. If the aim is for a "softer" look then it would seem the picture is indeed on point.

Mine certainly isn't perfect by any means, I would presume it could be a lot better with more up to dat equipment and a tripod.

Both lovely photo's in their own way. Mike's looks sharp and clinical but Lot's has lovely muted colour with a mysterious other worldly look about it. Couldn't say one is better than the other as they both have their own distinctive merits.

Thanks for the interesting replies, MikeP yours is sharper, an excellent picture, I did have fairly high contrast set in my 'presets i.e. pp3 file, and then reduced it to get this result. I know other factors can affect sharpness, I.e. atmosphere for one. Oh I did use a tripod BTW albeit a travel one, not the sturdiest perhaps.

I much prefer your image loadoftripe - Mike-P's is sharper and technically very good, but yours is different, the subtle colouration is beautiful - I'll take some tips from that, most of my shots have been pretty "standard"

I like them both....

The moon can actually be a difficult subject to shoot. It's really easy to get the exposure buggered up!

Sometimes I do more contrast... others I do not... depends on what takes my fancy!!

Here's one of my latest...

Maybe a bit off topic but back in 2007 I experimented with taking telescope eyepiece images with a small point and shoot Panasonic camera I had, my first digital camera. I was amazed at how well this method worked. The telescope was a Meade ETX105 and the camera was a Lumix DMC-LC80, so I'd point the scope at the moon, focus the eyepiece, aim the handheld camera down at the eyepiece and shoot. Here's a couple of examples of the results, first one the whole Moon diameter with terminator and second the same Moon phase with a higher magnification eyepiece giving partial Moon image.







Cheers
Mike