Moonscapes

cooligPhoto

Hi,

I was out last night feeding the cats (they have their own little house !!!) and I saw the moon shining bright. Couldn't resist grabbing my camera.

This is the first one I printed - I used a fairly long exposure which burned out the details of the moon...



This is one that had details of the moon but the rest was under exposed so I had to do a lot of work in PS to get some surrounding details...

mike65

The moon is so tempting, but like a cruel mistress she will frustrate!

I like the first for the sky detail. You need to cheat and combine one with the other.

Mike.

cooligPhoto

Great minds...

While you were replying, I was playing in PS.

This is just a quick scrappy merge - lasso'd the moon out of one into t'other...

Fajitas!

If you convert the layer with moon detail into a mask, and paint out the area around it, rather than a cut and paste job, it'll turn out a lot smoother

Nice shot, though!

smelltheglove

Agree with the above. Lovely shot though.

cooligPhoto

I will get to work on a clean merge at the weekend. Looks like it has good potential.

cooligPhoto

I spent a bit of time tidying this version up...



Will try to get a photo of a full moon for it.

pete4130

Here's one I shot last year, its an HDR attempt. Worked out well to get the movement of the clouds and retain moer detail.

0utpost31

Lads I was doing the exact same thing last night! Got a few that look similar to these. Kind of like a nebula. In work now but will contribute my pic when I get home later on!

smelltheglove

Its much better but it still feels a bit unnatural. Maybe rather than use the whole of the second moon select a bit leaving the outer edge using a light feather, then when you paste it into the first shot there will be less smoothing and therefor a more natural shot.

whyulittle

Two single exposures from the other night.

pixbyjohn

Super photos at 280mm F8 1/80" Well done

0utpost31

murpho999

I got this by shooting through a telescope....is that cheating?:eek:

MagicMarker

How interesting, the other day i came across these two on a different forum.

Obviously, NOT taken by me...

whyulittle

murpho999 wrote: »

I got this by shooting through a telescope....is that cheating?:eek:

Not at all. I got a t-mount and adapter a while ago, but for some reason I just cannot get the scope to focus when I hook it all up. Don't know what the problem is.

sunny2004

Just for the record the exposure for the moon is 125th of a second at f8... almost exclusively... its sunlight after all

hope that helps..

cooligPhoto

smelltheglove wrote: »

Its much better but it still feels a bit unnatural. Maybe rather than use the whole of the second moon select a bit leaving the outer edge using a light feather, then when you paste it into the first shot there will be less smoothing and therefor a more natural shot.

Thanks. I'm going to try for a better shot (will put a coat on next time as it was a bit chilly out). I'm not too keen on post processing, I only ever modify where necessary (exposure, brightness, blacks). This is the most PS work I've ever done on a photo.

Eye

I spotted it and ran in and grabbed my dad's 80-400mm sigma lens and got a couple of shots. Here are the 2 best ones i could manage.





Must try it again sometime and see if i can improve a bit and maybe go for a HDR shot next time

eirlink

taken this evening with a panasonic fz50 bridge
settings:
f5.6
1/200 sec
ISO 100
88.8 mm

sitting on a libec T58 tripod , mounted on H22Dv Plate.

hope you like!

eirlink

sunny2004 wrote: »

Just for the record the exposure for the moon is 125th of a second at f8... almost exclusively... its sunlight after all

hope that helps..

guess youre right...heres one at
1/125
f7.1
iso 100
88.38mm

whyulittle

Are you cropping too far into the image? 88mm, what lens are you using?

GristlyEnd

One of my old efforts.

eirlink

whyulittle wrote: »

Are you cropping too far into the image? 88mm, what lens are you using?

im using a panasonic fz50 bridge cam..Leica zoom 35-420mm
i cannot change lenses on this camera. and im only new to photography so im not sure about cropping. I imported it into lightroom , made some adjustments while messing with the LR settings and then cropped out most of the Black sky to show you more Moon detail. The original pic info shows as 88.8 mm in the metadata...whatever that is!!

i love the camera, its got a manual zoom and manual focus rings on the lens.

whyulittle

Never happy with my processing of the Moon. Here is tonight's.

Shiny

Howth head.
I have actually bracketed exposures of this but havn't had
a chance to make a good HDR out of it without ghosting.


Moon Rise in Segorbe, Valencia.

0utpost31

On my way back from work tonight I grabbed a pic of this Icebow around the moon... haven't seen one in ages.






Taken with the sigma 10-20, the only lens I had that was wide enough to capture it all properly. This thing was huge.

cooligPhoto

Forgot it was a full moon last night. Didn't see it until I left for work this morning. Bummer!

Will have to wait until the next one. Was going to throw the 2x onto my 200mm f/2.8 to get a nice close up.

Might try a few shots tonight with my 500mm f/8 mirror to see what it's like (very seldom use it - not too good).

whyulittle

Funny that, I had a contrail float past it when I was out around 12 last night. North-south as well which was even stranger.

Stephen

Here's one from the lunar eclipse in March 2007:



I had an SLR for about a month at that stage and didn't have a clue what the optimal settings for shooting the moon were :pac:

0utpost31

I'd love to get a plane going across the moon. Seen pics like that before, they're pretty cool.

paudie

Has anyone got any other angles?

:P

0utpost31

Yeah got this one last tuesday:

Shiny

Nice one there Outpost.

How long did your batteries last in that terrain ?
Enough for a single shot ?

eirlink

brilliant....

didnt take you long to get home either:D

rgiller

300mm on an APS-C but I still like it:

sunny2004

both of them look rotated ! (magic marker) on the first page..

Just for the record here, the exposure for a moon is f8 at 1/128 sec..

Its sunlight after all..

opti76

my attempts from last night.

PopeBuckfastXVI

This from ages ago:

labbad

This is worth a gander
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/moon-photography-made-simple/

Stephen

I really need a better tripod. Tried to do a few shots of the moon last night and it was just far too wobbly - everything came out way too soft looking.

AnimalRights

Dodgykeeper

Nice Pics must give this a go again sometimes,


Welcome back AR I missed you, I see you appealed your ban in Helpdesk and you didnt get one reply, what was that about!

AnimalRights

I like to do things just for the sake of it, I mean if I was to tell you about the Saucepans story from Arnott's you would section me.