Harvest Moon

[Michael Lloyd]

The Harvest moon is tonight. It's pretty but we don't have much to harvest around here. In celebration I'm going to go harvest some dust here in just a little bit... maybe some dead leaves... a couple of cracks in the ground.

It was only about 10 or 15 degrees above the horizon so there may be a little atmospheric distortion. I'm going to shoot it again when it's a little higher

800 f5.6L IS with 1.4x converter (1,120mm @f8)
EOS1DMKIV
About a 50% 10" x 10" crop in post

Pushed the exposure almost 2 stops in ACR (see below)
ISO 200
1/40s @f8

I used my 2 stops under trick and had to push it two over in post. My trick probably didn't work because I am using the 800mm lens at f8 rather than the 600 @ f4 (duh). At ISO 200 I don't think it suffered from added noise. if I had thought about it I would have set the ISO to 800 at the same settings. Maybe later

[Rachel Hollander]

Michael - nicely done. I like that we can see the craters on the rhs. The square crop works well too.

TFS,
Rachel

[Michael Lloyd]

Thanks Rachel. I just came in from taking another shot. The yellow is gone but the atmospheric distortion is much less. I have to admit, the 800 f5.6 (and 600 f4 for that matter) make this pretty easy to do

[Jeff Parker]

Here in Smithville we're harvesting ashes. It's fun to shoot the moon, but I bet the higher shot has more clarity.

[Arthur Morris]

The exposure looks fine and the image looks fairly sharp. I cannot resist those huge moons and suns. Funny thing is I sell lots of the moon and rarely a sun....

[Robert Amoruso]

Michael,

I would recommend Local Contrast enhancement first to bring out more detail and then sharpen for small JPG.

[Michael Lloyd]

Thanks Artie and Robert I agree.

Here in Smithville we're harvesting ashes. It's fun to shoot the moon, but I bet the higher shot has more clarity.

It sure looks like it to me

PS- I was in Smithville this morning. We ate lunch at a little cafe near a park adjacent to the railroad tracks.