I'll give you the moon

ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,132 moderator
edited October 5, 2006 in Holy Macro
Canon dRebel XT, ISO 200, 500mm Vivitar f6.3 lens (M42 screwmount, manual focus) at f8 plus Tamron 1.4x-F teleconverter (taped), 1/400 sec, RAW processed through RSE to 16 bit TIFF, TIFF cropped to 1127x1127, upressed, processed and then Green channel extracted and curves applied, USM. Downressed to 800x800 for viewing.

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  • photodougphotodoug Registered Users Posts: 870 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    one of these days Norton....excellent job thumb.gif
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    ziggy53 wrote:
    Canon dRebel XT, ISO 200, 500mm Vivitar f6.3 lens (M42 screwmount, manual focus) at f8 plus Tamron 1.4x-F teleconverter (taped), 1/400 sec, RAW processed through RSE to 16 bit TIFF, TIFF cropped to 1127x1127, upressed, processed and then Green channel extracted and curves applied, USM. Downressed to 800x800 for viewing.

    ziggy53

    Good heavens man eek7.gif that is one heck of a detailed big moon clap.gif
    When we were little kids my brother had a telescope that we all fought over..... we used to love looking at the moon, thanks for that memories.
    That is a heck of a shot Ziggy ...... Skippy (Australia)
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    Great detail, Ziggy! I saw some melons at Farmer's Market yesterday that this shot reminds me of (no kidding!) they were very unusual. Wish I had the lens to do this......in my next life. :D
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited October 5, 2006
    mmmmmm, cheese!! :D
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    Very nice moonshot, Ziggy. So when you look at the 100% crop can you see our little flag? :D
    Chris
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    Ziggy
    ziggy53 wrote:
    Canon dRebel XT, ISO 200, 500mm Vivitar f6.3 lens (M42 screwmount, manual focus) at f8 plus Tamron 1.4x-F teleconverter (taped), 1/400 sec, RAW processed through RSE to 16 bit TIFF, TIFF cropped to 1127x1127, upressed, processed and then Green channel extracted and curves applied, USM. Downressed to 800x800 for viewing.

    ziggy53

    Very nice! thumb.gif
    Care to post a link to a 100% crop?
    I'd like to see how 500mm x 1.4 really looks like..
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    eek7.gif I can see aliens walking there eek7.gif absolutly superb
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  • frgfrg Registered Users Posts: 583 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    Thats what I call a MOONSHOT!!! great photoclap.gifclap.gifclap.gif
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,132 moderator
    edited October 5, 2006
    photodoug wrote:
    one of these days Norton....excellent job thumb.gif

    Thanks Photodoug, I try.

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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,132 moderator
    edited October 5, 2006
    Skippy wrote:
    Good heavens man eek7.gif that is one heck of a detailed big moon clap.gif
    When we were little kids my brother had a telescope that we all fought over..... we used to love looking at the moon, thanks for that memories.
    That is a heck of a shot Ziggy ...... Skippy (Australia)

    Thanks Skippy.

    I helped build a 12.5" reflector back in High School, and it provided a splendid view of many objects. We had to use a "Moon filter" for lunar viewing, because it was so bright.

    Fond memories here too.

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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,132 moderator
    edited October 5, 2006
    saurora wrote:
    Great detail, Ziggy! I saw some melons at Farmer's Market yesterday that this shot reminds me of (no kidding!) they were very unusual. Wish I had the lens to do this......in my next life. :D

    Thanks Saurora,

    You're just trying to make everybody hungry, aren't you? Well it worked for me. Mmmm, melon. (Say it like "Homer" would say it.)

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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,132 moderator
    edited October 5, 2006
    DoctorIt wrote:
    mmmmmm, cheese!! :D

    Mmm, melon and cheese. Now I really am hungry.

    Thanks Erik.

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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,132 moderator
    edited October 5, 2006
    ChrisJ wrote:
    Very nice moonshot, Ziggy. So when you look at the 100% crop can you see our little flag? :D

    I see several, waving in the Solar Wind. No wait, there's a little green guy doing the waving. (D'oh!) (I don't know how I got on this "Homer" kick, but I bet all the foreign folks are goin' "wha'?")

    Thanks Chris.

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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,132 moderator
    edited October 5, 2006
    Nikolai wrote:
    Very nice! thumb.gif
    Care to post a link to a 100% crop?
    I'd like to see how 500mm x 1.4 really looks like..

    Nik, just for you. Remember that the original crop was from only 1127x1127 pixels.

    I went back to that TIF file, and this time I used a Contrast reduction of -10 before the USM, because I think there was too much "graininess" in the final, so here is a 100% crop of 800x800 pixels:

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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,132 moderator
    edited October 5, 2006
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    eek7.gif I can see aliens walking there eek7.gif absolutly superb

    Thanks Awais,

    I think they were trying to signal me something, but either they only have one finger, or they're not happy about something. ne_nau.gif

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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,132 moderator
    edited October 5, 2006
    frg wrote:
    Thats what I call a MOONSHOT!!! great photoclap.gifclap.gifclap.gif

    Thanks FRG,

    I didn't see any Tulips there, or even any "One"lips for that matter. (It's just not funny without the "rimshot".:D)

    I saw that you found some great one's where you are!

    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=44131

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  • CameronCameron Registered Users Posts: 745 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    People post moon shots fairly frequently, but this one is great!

    bowdown.gif
    Photos
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    Ziggy,
    ziggy53 wrote:
    Nik, just for you. Remember that the original crop was from only 1127x1127 pixels.

    I went back to that TIF file, and this time I used a Contrast reduction of -10 before the USM, because I think there was too much "graininess" in the final, so here is a 100% crop of 800x800 pixels:

    ziggy53

    Thanks, man, appreciate it! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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