Moon Shot

[FredS]

E-520 Oly 70-300 Lense
Shot in Victoria B.C.

[Lizardqing]

Wow, pretty cool. Care to share the settings you used?

[FredS]

Wow, pretty cool. Care to share the settings you used?

Shutter Priority 1/400, f 5.6, IS0 400 , White Balance Auto

A Very clear night also helped.

[thoughton]

That is remarkably good for a 'mere' 600mm equivalent lens! Slightly noisy but that is to be expected (this must be close to a 1:1 crop, no?). Personally I've had some luck shooting crescent moons, you get more crater detail as the sun is shining at it from the side and not head on.

[FredS]

That is remarkably good for a 'mere' 600mm equivalent lens!

Yes it is a 1:1 crop.
IMO This " mere 600mm " is a Good lens . It blows some Competition 300 mm lenses out of the water.
If you look around on the internet and some of my Oly 70-300 shots
It can produce some VERY nice pictures.

Fred..

[Lovin]

Great shot !

Yes, Olympus, actually Zuiko lenses, 70-300mm are better than Canon, Nikon or Pentax or any other 70-300mm lens out there.

[edG]

well done

[thoughton]

Hmm while I completely agree that Oly make and made some outstanding lenses, in some cases better than most of the competition, the reviews that I've seen of this particular lens are good but not incredibly so. I certainly wouldn't expect it to be significantly better (in IQ terms) than the Nikkor 70-300 or Pentax 55-300. I don't know much about Canon lenses so no opinion there.

[Marko]

I really like this!
Just as an FYI, I've heard (but never tried) that moon exposures can be based on the sunny 16 rule. F16 - ISO 100 - 1/100
The exposure of this scene is 3 stops brighter. I like the way this is rendered though!

[Iguanasan]

I really like this!
Just as an FYI, I've heard (but never tried) that moon exposures can be based on the sunny 16 rule. F16 - ISO 100 - 1/100
The exposure of this scene is 3 stops brighter. I like the way this is rendered though!

I have tried. The trick is to realize that the moon is reflected sunlight and therefore should be shot the same as a sunny day as long as you have a nice clear sky then it normally works out just fine. At least it did for me when I tried it once. I always wondered why the moon was overexposed when I used to try and capture it and then I realized why. Now, I shoot much closer to daylight settings and it works out just dandy.

This is a very nice shot, FredS.

[Marko]

Thanks for the extra clarification Iggy, YES, a clear sky is needed to use the rule. If the sky is not clear more exposure will be needed just as it is needed on a cloudy day when using the sunny 16 rule.

[FredS]

Thank you every one for the comments.
As Said, A clear sky was a big factor

Fred..

[Yisehaq]

Hey FredS,
I like your shot here very much except for the noise no the dark sky.

I tried to play with it (hope you don't mind) to subdue the effect of the noise in the dark area.
Just to let you know what I did,
I took one shot with my lens cap closed just to get a dark image with no noise.
Then I merged your moon photo with dark image
I changed the blend mode of the dark image to soft light then adjusted the opacity to 89% in these case.
Flaten it and voila!
I don't know if you like it and I am sure there might be other ways too.
Cheers,
Yisehaq

[Marko]

I like your play here Yisehaq and prefer the contrast.

[asnow]

I like the second one better. As Marko said I prefer the extra contrast.

[FredS]

Nice job on the edit Yisehaq

The orgional one is better than the one I posted. It is almost Noise free.
Reducing to under 200 kb really kills the IQ

He is the same picture with a little more contrast.
I tried to reduce the noise but image quality decreased.
The IQ in this was was lost. My Photo editing needs some work.

Fred..