Beautiful moon last night !!

WildWally

Tried my 300/2.8vr + 1.7xTC stacked with another 2xTC ..

auto white ballance


And sunshine white ballance ..
Which do you prefer ??

Chris_ND

number one is beautiful....
number two just looks dirty.

I wish I had the gear to take great photos like this.

DaddyO

Really Nailed. Excellent. Either are so nice.

black mamba

I think they're both very well done. I prefer the second. Nice work.

Tom

crashmaster

Either are great! Its art, not science.:D Because of atmospheric extinction the moon will appear a warmer color when its lower on the horizon as will the sun, but when high up in the sky, its whiter, just like the sun. So your second version (daylight WB) may actually be how it looked to your eye at the time since moon light is simply reflected sunlight, depends where it was on the horizon. In astrophotograpy we take extinction into account when adjusting WB on the stacked RGB frames of deep space objects, but we are usually shooting the object over a long time though its progression up from the horizon, so in order to make the star colors correct, we have to take extinction into account and adjust for it. But for the moon, I like the appearance of a little warmth, its easier to look at. Its all personal preference though.......

Nice job!