The moon - Please give some improvements on this

[imransait]

Hi all,
I have tried taking this. Very new to Macro and photography. Please suggest some improvements.



Thanks
-Imran

 

[480sparky40 39]

You've already extended the optical portion of your camera's lens to maximum, so the digital zoom starts to take over. Basically, the camera edits the image internally and returns a cropped portion of what the sensor recorded. Your metadata shows it as being 3.125x. This means the camera threw away a lot of the original image just to fill the screen.

Don't use digital zoom and crop the image in post. Short of going to a camera that can change lenses, there's not much else you can do.

BTW, this type of image isn't considered macro. It's more in the arena of astrophotography.

 

[imransait]

You've already extended the optical portion of your camera's lens to maximum, so the digital zoom starts to take over. Basically, the camera edits the image internally and returns a cropped portion of what the sensor recorded. Your metadata shows it as being 3.125x. This means the camera threw away a lot of the original image just to fill the screen.

Don't use digital zoom and crop the image in post. Short of going to a camera that can change lenses, there's not much else you can do.

BTW, this type of image isn't considered macro. It's more in the arena of astrophotography.​

Thank you for your comments / suggestions. I used Canon SX20IS to shoot this. you are correct. I used full 80x zoom to take this, Aim was to go more closer. I was not sure that, if i would have taken in 20x zoom and got the same output.

Short of going to a camera that can change lenses, there's not much else you can do

Sorry to ask you again, Can you please explain this more?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

 

[PhotoWrangler]

Sorry to ask you again, Can you please explain this more?

He means that you would have better results if you purchased a better camera.

 

[Tomasko]

Thank you for your comments / suggestions. I used Canon SX20IS to shoot this. you are correct. I used full 80x zoom to take this, Aim was to go more closer. I was not sure that, if i would have taken in 20x zoom and got the same output.

You would and maybe even better. There is one method that could help you - cropping. Your camera offers 4000x3000 resolution, so even when you crop a portion of it, you'll still have good enough resolution. Forget about digital zoom at all while taking pictures, you can do such zooming in PC later by yourself if you want to.