Luna madness

With the clocks going back I was greeted by blue skies this morning, and the morning moon was high in the western sky. I've used this technique before and it's still one of my favourite methods of getting good shots of the moon. You start with a true daylight shot.

You then convert it to monochrome (and adjust the contrast).

And then crop down. This is a 100% crop (ie the full size image as caught by the camera).


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Camera note: these are all edits of the same shot, taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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  1. Mickeyjoe-Irl

    29 Oct 2007

    Can't argue with the results :up:

  2. Words

    29 Oct 2007

    I wish I could remember where I first read about the technique. It's so simple but nearly always does the trick. I'll speculate that it's because the camera doesn't have to struggle with the intense contrasts of night shots.

  3. Vulpes vulpes

    29 Oct 2007

    Wow!

  4. Flying Red Fox Blog

    30 Oct 2007

    The last pic is the best, so brilliantly contrasted and sharp, i can see all the craters:D It was a lovelly night for the *Waning Moon( as its called after just gone Full.

    It now looks like a Rugby ball at the moment lol:P

  5. SittingFox

    30 Oct 2007

    Waning gibbeous…stunning! :up: You can see the big crater Tycho on the lower left, and all its impact rays spiraling outwards. Must have been an impressive collision that caused that!

    Thanks for the tips. I'll try it myself sometime! I didn't do much to my last moon picture except use Adobe's unsharp mask on it, which brings out a little more detail (if used with care!)

  6. gdare

    30 Oct 2007

    Great shots!!!
    I used the same technique few times but with different results. You have much better camera and lenses :up:

  7. Words

    31 Oct 2007

    Thanks V V!

  8. Words

    31 Oct 2007

    Adele. Thanks for the crater i.d. I used to have a plastic moon globe back in the days of all the moon landings and knew some of the names. All long forgotten I'm afraid.

    Those were fairly quick edits, but I did mask the moon and run the background through Neat Image to lose some of the grain before sharpening.

  9. Words

    31 Oct 2007

    Mark, thanks. The moon does look a bit squashed at the moment, but the shadows are good once it's gone past being full.

  10. Words

    31 Oct 2007

    Thanks Darko!

  11. tatora

    31 Oct 2007

    WOW …Moon …So nice 🙂

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