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PilotBrad
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Since buying a Canon EF 100-400mm a few weeks ago, I've been waiting for the right time to get a shot of the moon.
Taken with a 7D and cropped from 18mp to under 3mp. Post done in LR3. With regards to composition, where is the best place to place the moon in the frame when cropping?
Taken with a 7D and cropped from 18mp to under 3mp. Post done in LR3. With regards to composition, where is the best place to place the moon in the frame when cropping?
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If I were to be in charge of the crop....?
I'd have the moon higher in the frame, but keep the distance left to right as you have now....
I tried taking a shot with my D300S/18-200 and they don't look half as good as the shots with my Sony H20 point and shoot. Any idea why not? The Sony did have a 17x zoom vs the D300S's 10x. Still though.... the D300s should have done better I would have thought.
Here's the low res/compressed point and shoot shot. I'd love to see more people post moon shots and tell me what set up they used.
Even at an effective focal length of 640mm, I still want more! Maybe a tall ladder would help.
I should add that I've been trying to do all the right things to get these as sharp as possible; tripod (obviously), IS off, mirror lock-up, remote shutter release, manual exposure, etc.
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sharp you can crop close to taste and show large, maintaining that sharp
if it is truly there and here it looks like you got that. Very nice.
The crop ImageX presents is a nice one in a rectangular frame. It can also
be placed with balance in frame either just left or right some of center in
a rectangular frame. In a square frame I'd go with dead center with uniform
amounts of sky all around. But not a bunch of sky is really needed. Whatever
gives balance nicely in the frame.
You did everything right to get that sharp while taking the picture. A good
sharp shot also relies on lens quality and also the quality of the
atmosphere your taking the picture through. Sky observers call this the quality
of "seeing" on any given day or night of viewing things in the sky.
This is just IMO baseline.
I should also add that a fair amount of sharpening (76) and masking (60) was added in Lightroom. I also played with the tone curve a bit to darken the middle grays, which really seemed to add a lot of depth to the surface of the moon.
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