old moon shot - new treatment

[fringe_dweller]

Bored, so I was going thru my 150 shots!! of moon and jupe from feb this year and i messed around with grayscale for the first time - I also did a radical usm 100% on it.
Single shot Nikon CP 4500, WO 24mm ep, 10" dob, 250th sec, 100 ISO
Conditions werent great - very windy and warm, I never had focus completely as i was rushed (dob was horizontal at start took a lot of magnets to balance it!! crazy angle) and didnt readjust for focus shift - till it was too late - but this one got close to focus. Only used the lcd on the back - which can lie easily really need an external lcd like a portable dvd screen or something plugged into the av out - or make a hartmann lol!. Am really getting the afocal bug again now - gonna try and do a bit more.
Kearn

[fringe_dweller]

woah tried levels in the mix - i like grayscale now jupes dark tho

[iceman (Mike)]

Really nice Kearn, I love the contrast of the moon in the 2nd one. To avoid darkening Jupiter, make another layer with just the moon selected, and then do your levels/contrast/unsharp mask on that layer. You can then also make a layer with Jupiter in it, and brighten it up.

Great shots!

[iceman (Mike)]

A bit like this..

[TidaLpHasE]

Awsome shot. I am finding afocal addictive and can't wait to get back into it, nasty clouds.

[fringe_dweller]

Thanks Mike!! followed your great advice and it worked beautifully :-))) only thing is i didnt keep the original large treated file and i had to redo from scratch - couldnt get the levels on the moon to match so this one is a bit darker. I am looking forward to using the tiff mode instead of maximum jpg in future attempts - might be nicer i suspect! I did try a clone stamp of jupiter version colour that worked nicely to.

Trevor, thanks mate having the same cloud problems here to I think there are a lot of frustrated observers/imagers out there atm!
Kearn

[h0ughy (David)]

Kearn, love what you have done with this, it is a great shot!

[fringe_dweller]

Ta H0ughy , its turned a fairly ordinary slightly out of focus shot with a slight greenish hue ( CA from medium quality ep or from cameras lens or both? ) into something a bit more interesting.
man i would love to a takahashi ep or something of that quality for afocal - have to be threaded like the WO dcl-28 but -
Kearn

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Awesome stuff! It almost looks like the Moon has a moon. Chuck a generous black border around the pic before getting it printed.

[RB (Andrew)]

Kearn, that's turned out really beautiful.
It's just amazing to see the two next to each other like that.
Well done.

[fringe_dweller]

Cheers Guy's!! :-)) Steve i might just try that - sounds like a very good idea - i have cropped from the top and bottom, but the sides are the edge of frame/ep.
Kearn

[ving (David)]

hey that shots all good!