clear night the other night

[stuck]

with a lovely crescent moon

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Ken

[HansV]

Wonderful!

[Rudi]

Hey stuck, that is a great photo...

But I thought I'd make it better
Sorry...the opportunity was knocking!

Spoiler

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[BobH]

Howdy, Ken!

However did you capture the unlit portion of the moon's surface? Were you using a handheld camera or a telescope? Tell us about the lens that can do such things, please.

[stuck]

You often can see the unlit bit of the moon when the sky is very clear and crescent is very thin, at least you can in these parts of the world. The camera just captured what it could see.

The camera and lens combination was the same as the one I used for the last moon pic I posted, i.e. a Canon 400D (aka Rebel XTi) with Canon 55-250 f/4-5.6 set at 250mm. This time it was mounted on a tripod and the shutter fired with a remote cable release. I then cropped the moon out of the centre of the image.

The quality lens is not actually that brilliant, e.g. you can see chromatic aberration along the inner edge of the bright crescent. It's one of Canon's budget lenses. I could improve the image and remove the colour fringes and sharpen it better with some post processing.

Ken

[BobH]

Having learned what little I know about photography in the silver film era, I am amazed that the lens gathers enough light to show the unlit moon. When it does so, I am not at all surprised to find the lit portion overexposed.

It is still a very good shot. Do you recall the shutter speed that captured it?

[HansV]

The file properties say that exposure time was 0.6 seconds...

[mishmish3000]

Hey stuck, that is a great photo...

But I thought I'd make it better
Sorry...the opportunity was knocking!

Spoiler

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OH Rudi, you silly!!!

[Rudi]

I was wanting to test out an online image editor and this just happened to present an opportunity. No discredit to the image that stuck took...His images are generally very good and in no need of additional editing.

[steveh]

with a lovely crescent moon

Ken

Very nice as usual Ken

As I have said before I have splashed out on the best stuff I can afford and never get close to the shots that you and Hans take, similar with clothes though you could put me in an Armani suit and I would look like a sack of spuds tied up with string in the middle. My moon and sun shots are getting a little better though

[HansV]

That's not bad at all!

[mishmish3000]

Excellent!!!!

[stuck]

...His images are generally very good and in no need of additional editing.

However, they generally do need additional editing. The versions I post here are usually just the .jpg the comes straight out of the camera after downsizing (using Irfanview's save for web plugin). If I start from the RAW file and process that I can usually get much sharper images with better white balance, contrast etc.

Ken

[Rudi]

That editing is standard...I think most of use add more contrast and fix white balance.
In many of my images I also increase depth too (by using deepen) and adjust the gamma brightness.