Moon photos

[waltesefalcon]

I am a little happier with tonight's photos. All are cropped the first two were cleaned up quite a bit in lightroom, the second two are color corrected just a bit. The last one is a straight crop with no digital manipulation, it is the same photo as the one directly preceding it.

ISO-800, f 5.6, 1/90

ISO-400, f-5.6, 1/350

ISO-280, f-11, 1/350

ISO-280, f-8, 1/180

 

[Basil]

The second picture looks like the natural color of the moon, when it is high in the sky. Orangeish when it's closer to the horizon near sun set. The last two look closest to a good exposure. The last one with the lower ISO seems to have less noise.

The focus looks just a tad soft but not bad. I don't know if you're using manual focus, but if not, do. If your camera can zoom in (like x5 or x10) on the rear viewfinder, I find it helpful to zoom in as much as I can and manually focus to get the sharpest looking zoomed in image (don't worry if it doesn't look super sharp zoomed in, just try to get it as sharp as you can. The real unzoomed image will then be sharper. I guarantee you that the perfect focus will not be at infinity, but a little bit closer than infinity. Also, you might try backing off the zoom. A lot of zoom lenses get less sharp when they are zoomed in all the way. For exam please, if your using a 200mm try taking a picture at 200, then back off to maybe 180 or 190. My Sigma 150-600 lens is decidedly sharper at 580 than it is all the way out to 600.

 

[DrEntropy]

In that last shot, if the exposure was long enough to have the moon move, I think the water ripples would have been smoothed out.

Must agree. Not sure what I was thinking!

 

[waltesefalcon]

Bas,

The second photo is simply one I changed to black and white.

For something like shooting the moon or any landscape I like to set everything up manually. I usually just use the view finder on my camera. I'll mess with it today and figure out how to set the back screen up to show the view finder image. I'm sure once I do that I can zoom in on the moon and set the focus there. I'll try again soon.

Thanks for the tips.