The Moon 2nd Of October 2009

[seanliddelow]

Here is a photo of the Moon on the 4th of October taken through a 4 megapixel Olympus Camedia D-545 Zoom.

[StephenM]

Nice one Sean!

Was that hand-held, or using an adapter to hold the camera?

Cheers,
Stephen

[Quark]

Well done Sean,

Some nice crisp detail present in this image.

With the Moon it is always a compromise with the exposure, trying not to washout the bright regions while trying to not make the darker regions to dark.

This is a nice effort but you could have, maybe, gone for a fraction longer exposure.

Regards
Trevor

[seanliddelow]

Thankyou, It was hand-held.



It was a non-exposure image because I used a Dobsonian.

Thankyou, although I need to improve my re-processing

[Lumen Miner]

Nice work!! Great details.

By exposure Quark means, you could allow more time on the image. eg 30secs. He may have missed though, that you are using a Point and shoot not a DSLR, so I would image you can not do long exposures...
Your exposure time looks fine to me though.

You could definately pull out more detail, through processing, as you said.

This is a quick re-work. Not necessarily better, just my view.
Slight sharpen, Curves, Switched to B&W (to remove halo), Contrast adjust and Noise reduction.

Turned out alright, your initial shot is tops though!!
Keep 'em coming!! :thumbsup:

[seanliddelow]

What software were you using?

[Inmykombi]

Nice capture there.

Good detail as well.

Geoffro.

[Lumen Miner]

Gimp
Noiseware community edition

[seanliddelow]

I have adjusted the brightness and contrast and I have also sharpened it, but the curve is hard to get right.