The Moon by Robin Reid

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21-APR-2005	Robin Reid

The Moon

Rancho Bernardo, CA

As you see I have moved from messing around with Photoshop to “straight shooting” with yesterday’s bottle brush and last night’s moon shown here.

Gary Winters had used my Canon 70 to 200 mm f/2.8 L lens while I was ‘down under,’ so this is my first time to try it out again.

Shooting the moon is easier in photography than it is in the game of hearts, but either way patience pays off. I tried several manual exposure settings and didn’t quite have it tack on. This one (one of 14) proved to be the sharpest with almost the right exposure.

However I think using RAW helped to recover some of the flaws. The image was exposed in 16 bit RAW. Using the Photoshop RAW sliders I reduced Exposure by -.60, Shadows raised to +21, Brightness to +24, and Contrast to +42.

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
1/100s f/9.0 at 400.0mm iso200 with 2x Extender hide exif

Full EXIF Info
Date/Time	21-Apr-2005 20:14:51
Make	Canon
Model	Canon EOS 20D
Flash Used	No
Focal Length	400 mm
Exposure Time	1/100 sec
Aperture	f/9
ISO Equivalent	200
Exposure Bias
White Balance	(-1)
Metering Mode	matrix (5)
JPEG Quality	(6)
Exposure Program	program (1)
Focus Distance

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Herb		28-Apr-2005 07:31
Well done

Robin Reid		23-Apr-2005 15:03
Ken, as I understand the difference, the RAW feature in Photoshop (CS 7)once can make those adjustments w/o damaging the original pixels and before the file actually gets loaded into PS for 'editing.' I don't think RAW works on TIFF. I know it does not on JPEG. Now of course many of the adjustments made in RAW could be made with the JPEG file inside of PS, but more pixels get bruised, and the controls aren't quite as exact.

Kenneth Zimmerman		23-Apr-2005 12:00
Great shot Isn't PhotoShop wonderfull. Question, could you not have made those adjustments with the shot taken in JPG or TIFF mode and then PhotoShop those adjustments?

Karen Leaf		23-Apr-2005 03:54
Don't encourage him, Jeremy! I think melon and cheese are reserved for the final course Robin. Very fitting for your Man in the Moon melon.

snootydog		23-Apr-2005 01:51
This is excellent Robin. I've never had much success with shooting the moon. And yours really is quite melon like.

don nieman		22-Apr-2005 23:12
Wow, all that technical talk! I think you have a really nice image of the moon, here.

northstar37		22-Apr-2005 21:52
I can see canals and roads :-0

Gary Winters		22-Apr-2005 21:24
Good shot, but I can't quite make out the flag that Neil Armstrong planted. Perhaps a longer zoom? Actually, I'm jealous. VERY good shot, Robin!

Gail Davison		22-Apr-2005 18:33
Very impressive!

Guest		22-Apr-2005 18:00
You did a great job of this! Brilliant!

JeremyGood		22-Apr-2005 17:46
Beautiful shot. But I miss the seagull.

Gayle P. Clement		22-Apr-2005 16:23
You did a wonderful job of this, Robin.

laine82		22-Apr-2005 16:02
I wonder what a cheese tasting melon would be like :>) It sure is a fascinating subject.

Pepe Zyman		22-Apr-2005 14:43
Thank you for sharing the information. This is an excellent image. "Fly me to the moon......

Cliff		22-Apr-2005 14:09
Mooning us again eh Robin :o) Thanks for the notes re your settings - I may give it a whirl.

markvm		22-Apr-2005 13:56
Very nice shot of the moon, Robin!