Moon shots

[Andrewmap]

Tried this "colourising the moon" technique, maybe I overdid it a bit ..................

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I think this (IMO) is the best one; how did you achieve it BTW?

 

[AndyT]

I think this (IMO) is the best one; how did you achieve it BTW?

For the first attempt I just followed this tutorial - https://photographingspace.com/find-the-secret-and-subtle-color-in-moon-photos/

For the second pic I took this route:

Opened the RAW file in ACR​

Took the Saturation up to 100%​

Took the Vibrance up to 80%​

Adjusted the WB - this may take a bit of tweaking, I adjusted the two sliders slightly to get the desired effect.​

Used the Clarity, Dehaze sliders as well​

I also played around a bit with the Color Mixer - mostly Saturation - Reds, Oranges and Blue. Ditto the Hue slider.​

You can also do NR here if you want​

Opened in Photoshop - applied High Pass sharpening​

I then cropped to a 1:1 ratio​

Upresed the pic, saved as a Jpeg​

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I then revisited an older shot and applied the settings.

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Edit: Added this one for comparison, just a bit of +15 Saturation in PS via an adjustment layer.
Probably my favourite.

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[Lawrence Beck]

A shot from last Friday with the OMD EM1 Mk2 + Leica 400 APO 2.8 with stacked 1.4 and 2X APO converters. I tried this a number of times while living down on the Sea of Cortez, in San Carlos, Mexico but the high humidity and dust of the Sonora desert at sea level made for poor atmospherics and that significantly compromised moon shots.
I'm now in northern Baja in an area free of industrial pollution and a mile from the coast. The cooler air temperatures and cleaner atmospherics make for a higher quality image, in spite of stacked teleconverters which are seldom the route to quality IQ.

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[cjoliprsf]

Two full moons ago (in June) - was browsing through my photos and thought I should post it here.
GM5 + 35-100 kit zoom @ 100mm - so far from fancy for gear!

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[SVQuant]

Red moon in the CA smoke last night. Essentially a SOOC cropped jpeg (I still haven't figured out a new raw workflow)

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[Tywais]

Moon over northern Thailand after a break in the monsoon rains. E-M1 Mark III, Oly 40-150mm PRO + TC20 at 300mm.

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[jimr.pdx]

It's a smokey, scarlet moon tonight west of the Cascades, undoubtedly also in California. Grabbed a few shots, will post one tomorrow. Whoa tomorrow is in 13 minutes ?

 

[Mountain_Man_79]

From the eclipse two January’s ago...

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[2112]

Fujifilm X-Pro3 & Astro-Tech AT65EDQ Quadruplet Refractor Telescope.

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[Tywais]

Half moon over northern Thailand last night. 40-150mm PRO +MC20

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[nstelemark]

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[AlexMachine]

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Updated from EM1.1 to EM1.2 and suddenly I have hard time getting sharp moon shots. Tried last night and all are a little soft or out of focus. Olymp. 40-150 pro and 1.4TC. ISO200, 1/6s handheld, 210mm, f14. Tried many different setting (from f4.0 to 14 and 1/6s to 1/800s). Manual focus.

 

[BosseBe]

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Updated from EM1.1 to EM1.2 and suddenly I have hard time getting sharp moon shots. Tried last night and all are a little soft or out of focus. Olymp. 40-150 pro and 1.4TC. ISO200, 1/6s handheld, 210mm, f14. Tried many different setting (from f4.0 to 14 and 1/6s to 1/800s). Manual focus.

Could it be that you need to do a Micro-focus adjustment on the new EM1.2?

 

[Machi]

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Updated from EM1.1 to EM1.2 and suddenly I have hard time getting sharp moon shots. Tried last night and all are a little soft or out of focus. Olymp. 40-150 pro and 1.4TC. ISO200, 1/6s handheld, 210mm, f14. Tried many different setting (from f4.0 to 14 and 1/6s to 1/800s). Manual focus.

Why you shoot at 1/6s f/14? That's totally outside ideal parameters for your combo even with IBIS.
At f/14 it's blurred by diffraction and at 1/6s you want from the camera perfect 6.5+EV IBIS.
Something like f/5.6 1/200s or f/8 1/100s would be much better (exact numbers depends on on the phase of the Moon, how high it's in the Sky, how clear is the atmosphere and if one shoots RAW or not).
Also one cannot easily compare images from one night to another one as atmospheric turbulences are blurring images every night differently.

 

[AlexMachine]

Why you shoot at 1/6s f/14? That's totally outside ideal parameters for your combo even with IBIS.
At f/14 it's blurred by diffraction and at 1/6s you want from the camera perfect 6.5+EV IBIS.
Something like f/5.6 1/200s or f/8 1/100s would be much better (exact numbers depends on on the phase of the Moon, how high it's in the Sky, how clear is the atmosphere and if one shoots RAW or not).
Also one cannot easily compare images from one night to another one as atmospheric turbulences are blurring images every night differently.

I know. Like I said, I tried everything from f4.0 to 14 and from 1/800s to 1/6. About 100 photos.
I usually take them at ISO 200-800, 1/200, f7 but every combination was less than ok. This was the best of them.

 

[Machi]

I know. Like I said, I tried everything from f4.0 to 14 and from 1/800s to 1/6. About 100 photos.
I usually take them at ISO 200-800, 1/200, f7 but every combination was less than ok. This was the best of them.

Then it's probably atmosphere. If magnified image of the Moon is visibly undulating then conditions are not good and images will be blurred. It also depends how high is the Moon in the sky. Moon low above horizon will be always much more affected than high in the sky.
I don't think that AF adjustments affects manual focus.

 

[Machi]

I've looked up how high was the Moon in you position and time and it was barely above horizon.
I can say with high confidence that blurring is entirely caused by the atmosphere. There is even chromatic aberration caused when light goes through lots of atmosphere (that means lower object is -> more chromatic aberrations) visible in your image in the lower part (visible as red edge).

 

[AlexMachine]

I've looked up how high was the Moon in you position and time and it was barely above horizon.
I can say with high confidence that blurring is entirely caused by the atmosphere. There is even chromatic aberration caused when light goes through lots of atmosphere (that means lower object is -> more chromatic aberrations) visible in your image in the lower part (visible as red edge).

Thanks. I will try again when it’s better conditions.

 

[Biswajit Sharma]

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[nstelemark]

Another evening another shot of the moon:

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