Sunset Moonrise over the Hualapai Mtns

kdog · November 25, 2007

Comments and critiques always welcome.

Thanks for looking.
-joel

anwmn1 · November 25, 2007

kdog wrote:

Comments and critiques always welcome.

Thanks for looking.
-joel

Sweet shot Joel!!

Skippy · November 26, 2007

kdog wrote:

Comments and critiques always welcome.

Thanks for looking.
-joel

Even though it looks very grainy I really like it.
That is quite some moon scape

Well Done! .... Skippy

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kdog · November 26, 2007

anwmn1 wrote:

Sweet shot Joel!!

Thanks, Aaron!

kdog · November 26, 2007

Skippy wrote:

Even though it looks very grainy I really like it.
That is quite some moon scape
Well Done! .... Skippy
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Thanks, Skippy!!

Just out of curiousity, where are you seeing the grain? I did shoot at a higher ISO than I wanted to because I didn't have time to get my tripod. Moonrises happen amazingly fast, and I almost missed it as it was. I tried to minimize noise during the processing, and was pretty happy with the result. That is until old eagle-eyes spotted it. :cry

But I am curious as to what exactly you are seeing.

Cheers,
-joel

anwmn1 · November 26, 2007

kdog wrote:

Thanks, Skippy!!

Just out of curiousity, where are you seeing the grain? I did shoot at a higher ISO than I wanted to because I didn't have time to get my tripod. Moonrises happen amazingly fast, and I almost missed it as it was. I tried to minimize noise during the processing, and was pretty happy with the result. That is until old eagle-eyes spotted it. :cryBut I am curious as to what exactly you are seeing.

Cheers,
-joel

I think what Skippy is referring to is that the shot is not real sharp like moon shots others have posted. There seems to be some noise in the sky and a little fuzzyness in the mountains. There is some rough edges around the moon as well.

Considering that you have some detail on the mountain and the moon in an early rise I think it is very good. The moon does rise rapidly and is difficult to get detail during the rise. Most other moon shots are once it has risen and a longer exposure and higher f-stop are possible.

Good Work

kdog · November 26, 2007

anwmn1 wrote:

I think what Skippy is referring to is that the shot is not real sharp like moon shots others have posted. There seems to be some noise in the sky and a little fuzzyness in the mountains. There is some rough edges around the moon as well.

Considering that you have some detail on the mountain and the moon in an early rise I think it is very good. The moon does rise rapidly and is difficult to get detail during the rise. Most other moon shots are once it has risen and a longer exposure and higher f-stop are possible.

Good Work

Thanks, Aaron. You're right that taking a moon shot on the horizon is a completely different animal than shooting an overhead moon shot. Aside from the fact that the moon is in constant motion, you are also shooting almost horizontally through the atmosphere. It's a worst case scenario for atmospheric distortion. I'm fairly certain that's what caused the fuzzyness on the edges of the moon as well.

Here's an overhead moon shot of mine for comparison. Like I say, it's a different animal.

Cheers,
-joel

dogwood · November 26, 2007

Cool shot... but there's something a bit fuzzy about the edge of the moon. It doesn't quite look fake, but sort of gives that impression.

photocat · November 26, 2007

I see some chippies on the moon top, but it does not bother me at all. I would so pleased if I would get a shot like that. Great that the moon is so big...
Lovely work if you ask me...

Skippy · November 26, 2007

anwmn1 wrote:

I think what Skippy is referring to is that the shot is not real sharp like moon shots others have posted. There seems to be some noise in the sky and a little fuzzyness in the mountains. There is some rough edges around the moon as well.

Considering that you have some detail on the mountain and the moon in an early rise I think it is very good. The moon does rise rapidly and is difficult to get detail during the rise. Most other moon shots are once it has risen and a longer exposure and higher f-stop are possible.

Good Work

On my monitor I see the sky is full of it, and the moon as the others have said is kind of fuzzy looking.
Maybe bad choices of words, probably should have said noisey (for the Sky)

Don't get me wrong I really like the shot, it looks really good, it all goes together just nicely

.... Skippy

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kdog · November 26, 2007

dogwood wrote:

Cool shot... but there's something a bit fuzzy about the edge of the moon. It doesn't quite look fake, but sort of gives that impression.

Thanks, Pete. I agree with you, although I swear the image is real. I shot 20 shots and they all have this. I'm certain it's atmospheric distortion caused from shooting horizontally to the earth.

Cheers,
-joel

kdog · November 26, 2007

photocat wrote:

I see some chippies on the moon top, but it does not bother me at all. I would so pleased if I would get a shot like that. Great that the moon is so big...
Lovely work if you ask me...

Thank you very much, Photocat!!!

kdog · November 26, 2007

Skippy wrote:

On my monitor I see the sky is full of it, and the moon as the others have said is kind of fuzzy looking.
Maybe bad choices of words, probably should have said noisey (for the Sky)

Don't get me wrong I really like the shot, it looks really good, it all goes together just nicely .... Skippy
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Ah, thanks again, Skippy! That helps a lot. There is noise in the sky, and you have a good eye. I tried selectively blurring the noise out, but it left a halo around the moon. So I scrapped that idea. I believe the surface of the moon is very clean because there was lots of light there. The mountain surface is all rocks and scrub bushes, so one would be hard-pressed to see any noise there. But that darn sky is a killer.

The simultaneous moonrise and sunset only seems to happen a few times a year, and this is the best I've done. But frankly I blew again. :bluduh

Better luck next time.

Cheers,
-joel