Author Topic: [Theme] Show us your best moon (and solar system) images  (Read 215614 times)

Akira

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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #195 on: October 06, 2016, 11:07:59 »
Crescent moon in the dusk color.
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #196 on: October 06, 2016, 14:36:18 »
Almost full harvest moon over a small Swedish lake.
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #197 on: October 06, 2016, 21:30:10 »
Crescent moon in the dusk color.
More magic dusk colors. 
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #198 on: October 06, 2016, 21:40:55 »
Thanks, Keith.  (If I understand you correctly...)
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #199 on: October 10, 2016, 19:35:18 »

a colourful moon by Arend, on Flickr
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #200 on: October 10, 2016, 20:03:41 »
Very original ;) Great shot!
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #201 on: October 10, 2016, 20:30:22 »
Thanks Erik !
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #202 on: October 10, 2016, 20:53:58 »
That's a great new take on a timeless subject Arend

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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #203 on: October 10, 2016, 22:09:45 »
Arend, WOW  :o
How did you achieve it???  ???
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #204 on: October 10, 2016, 22:54:59 »
Thanks Colin & Jakov !

@Jakov, I took the photo when the moon was in between clouds and then used one of the Analog Efex Pro filters to get this effect (the high ISO did the rest). So it did not take much actually :-)
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #205 on: October 11, 2016, 02:20:21 »
I echo Eric and Colin's sentiment. Terrific shot Arend.
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #206 on: October 11, 2016, 09:24:13 »
Arend, thank you so much for the explanation.
I am impressed by two facts:
1. How the moon doesn't contain any noise.
2. How you managed to separate the moon from the background. It's as if you stuck the moon on a noisy background :)

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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #207 on: October 11, 2016, 10:39:08 »
To me, the noise is caused by the severely underexposed night sky.  The technical aspect aside, I agree with all.  Thanks for this inspiring moon shot, Arend!
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #208 on: October 11, 2016, 13:23:14 »
Thanks Anirban, Jakov & Akira !

And you are right Akira the underexposure of the sky - the moon was slightly overexposed - combined with the postprocessing I did (besides the Nik filter forgot to say that I also seriously pulled the clarity and vibrance sliders) at ISO 6400 caused this noise. What catches me as well is the relatively even noise pattern of the D500.
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #209 on: October 13, 2016, 22:31:15 »

blue moon by Arend, on Flickr
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