With all the rain we have been having in Brisbane, I’ve been looking at some recent images to see if I can improve them. Here is one I have been playing with, a colour enhanced version of the recent Moon photo I took at the prime focus of the Tak Mewlon 180 with the Canon 40D. Focused using Remote Live View, with an exposure of 1/50 sec at 100 ASA.
All I did was increase the saturation in CS3 and the colours and hues just popped out!
Thanks for the nice comments guys – have a look this LPOD link to some Zac Pujic colour saturated images for some details on which elements produce these colours. Zac is an IIS member from Brisbane.
I know its garish but for differences between different topographical features and their composition you can take it further - see attached. But I prefer the subtleness of yours
Man this photo has to be one of the best Moon photo's I have ever seen. Every time I come into the Solar System forum I just have to have another look.
The link listed below illustrates a slightly more complex technique for producing some amazing coloured moon shots, that avoids some of the limits using saturation control. http://www.colormoon.pt.to/
Thanks again for all your nice complements; I’m glad you enjoyed the photo. Our Moon is a rewarding celestial target as it is so close and has an amazing variety of moods and detail which are always changing depending on the season and the phase.
There is a little softness in the image at the edges as the large sensor is quite challenging for the central, relatively small, in-focus field of view of the Dall-Kirkham design of the Mewlon.
I’ve found that the combination of magnified focusing via Remote Live View and using the Mirror Lock Up on the Canon 40D have significantly improved the sharpness on my DSLR lunar images compared to my trusty old Pentax *ist DS which I still treasure.
That is a wonderful image. Questions:
Is that a single image?
Did you take it in RAW mode or Jpeg?
And finally, what white balance did you use - daylight?
Glenn
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Is that a single image?
Did you take it in RAW mode or Jpeg?
And finally, what white balance did you use - daylight?
Glenn
Hi Glenn
Thanks for those nice words.
At the F12 prime focus of the Mewlon 180 the gibbous Moon won’t quite fit on a single frame with the Canon 40D, so I resorted to taking two photos slightly offset, then using CS3 to automatically create a mosaic from the two panes.
Here are the two frames and the Exif details of one of them as a screen capture; I haven’t figured out yet how to capture the Exif data as a text string.
The captures were RAW and WB was left at Auto. 1/50 sec at ISO 100.
Essentially, it is a single image although it is in fact a mosaic of the two segments.
I’ve been looking at some recent images to see if I can improve them. Here is one I have been playing with, a colour enhanced version of the recent Moon photo I took at the prime focus of the Tak Mewlon 180 with the Canon 40D. Focused using Remote Live View, with an exposure of 1/50 sec at 100 ASA.
