Shooting the moon

[Haeretik]

Originally Posted by wulf

There's nothing wrong with having the moon small in the frame but it can also be very satisfying when you get the effect of zooming right up close by cropping.

Wulf

Oh I totally agree... just makes a better wallpaper imo Here's the crop of the original shot, I didn't resize it, just cropped to the dimensions I upload to flickr. Added unsharpen mask of 250% as well...

[mhuk05]

If you're in England it's a clear sky at the moment and a big, close moon.

[RandomConnections]

Another take on the moon...



I snapped this one with my 50mm f1/1.8 this morning on my way to work. I seem to have missed the full moon opportunities last week.

[Haeretik]

Originally Posted by mhuk05

If you're in England it's a clear sky at the moment and a big, close moon.

Man mine looks almost identical! Taken in Spruce Grove, AB, Canada... your's on the 23rd of Nov, mine on the 24th.

[wulf]

Here is my best moon shot so far - I think this is about as close as my 70-300mm will take me:



Wulf

[Taallyn]

Here's my shot of the Harvest Moon from back in September. Heavily cropped and from my 18-135mm which is my longest lens right now.

[inkista]

Wulf, have you tried sharpening? I did a ton of post-processing and I sharpened (as well as converted to B&W) when I was struggling to get the moon with my EF 75-300 III. I probably overdid the sharpening, but the results made me reasonably happy:



Also, maybe try shooting at the lowest iso you can?

[wulf]

It had some sharpening. Lower ISO would help - I hadn't changed my setting back after taking some shots indoors.

Wulf

[Grum]

This was taken a couple of years back. cropped ,Sharpened, Auto levels/contrast.



Make - PENTAX Corporation
Model - PENTAX *ist DS
ExposureTime - 1/20 seconds
ExposureProgram - Manual control
ISOSpeedRatings - 200
DateTimeOriginal - 2005:11:17 00:44:00
ExposureBiasValue - 0.00
MeteringMode - Spot
Flash - Not fired
ColorSpace - sRGB
CustomRendered - Normal process
ExposureMode - Manual
WhiteBalance - Auto
SceneCaptureType - Standard
Contrast - Normal
Saturation - Normal
Sharpness - Normal
SubjectDistanceRange - Distant view

[Junior1919]

I took this one on the first day of the new year. I don't have a zoom lens so I went for a wide shot instead. I made it lighter a bit so you could see the windchime in the top/middle of the shot.



Exposure: 15 sec (15)
Aperture: f/2.6
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV