Moon with 70-200 C&C

[irish23]

Hey man it's better then ive done with the moon.

 

[samal]

I gave it a go tonight, I'm not at all happy with the results... Moon looked tack-sharp through the viewfinder, looks way out of focus here... and I feel like I lost a LOT of contrast details. This is straight off the camera, on a tripod, 70-300VR, VR off. 2 second timer. Tripod legs were extended all the way, I suspect that there may have been some movement - the 70-300 hangs off the front of the camera quite a bit, and it was extended fully.

ISO 200, 1/10, f/14, 300mm. I zoomed in on PSE to 100% and then cropped it slightly.

did you shoot it in raw? this is about what my photo looked straight from the camera as well - I did add some contrast, sharpened it and lowered exposure and added some colors saturation in Lightroom. I was able to recover most the details thanks to raw image.

I used Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 with my shady 1.4 converter

 

[robbie_vlad]

You're going to want a faster shutter speed/lower f-number to get a real clean photo of the moon. I use personally f/8, ISO 100, shutter speed 1/250-1/320.

 

[hankejp]

Moon Porn.....That's awesome!!!!!!!!

 

[samal]

You're going to want a faster shutter speed/lower f-number to get a real clean photo of the moon. I use personally f/8, ISO 100, shutter speed 1/250-1/320.

I just realized that I never changed the ISO - I have no idea why I stayed in 200, and for aperture - I went with 5.6 - supposedly sweet spot for my lens and left manually focused on infinity

 

[fiveoboy01]

Thanks for the tips guys, I'll try again tonight maybe.

 

[astrostu]

I gave it a go tonight, I'm not at all happy with the results... Moon looked tack-sharp through the viewfinder, looks way out of focus here... and I feel like I lost a LOT of contrast details. This is straight off the camera, on a tripod, 70-300VR, VR off. 2 second timer. Tripod legs were extended all the way, I suspect that there may have been some movement - the 70-300 hangs off the front of the camera quite a bit, and it was extended fully.

ISO 200, 1/10, f/14, 300mm. I zoomed in on PSE to 100% and then cropped it slightly.

As stated by others, f/5.6-8 is generally the sweet spot for sharpness of most lenses, and so f/14 is way off. Open your aperture and decrease your shutter speed by a factor of 10 or so.

Remember that the human eye is very different from a camera's CCD (or CMOS) detector. Your eye will adjust the contrast for you, your camera detector will not (unless you tell it to on those modern new-fangled thingies). There is a limited amount of dynamic range on the moon, and the vast majority of it is along the terminator (line between night and day). When I process my moon shots, I generally do the terminator separately from the rest of the moon to allow for a maximum of believable contrast (as in, DON'T over-do the contrast, it will look way too fake).

 

[hankejp]

Here's my contribution to the moon porn thread. I took these this mid afternoon today.

 

[fiveoboy01]

Ok I haven't had a chance to get back out due to rain...

I played with the picture in PSE a bit, this is the same picture... I played with the contrast and sharpness, does this look a little better? I like it better than the original.