Another moon shot, edited in Nik Suite for details and contrast, for the etsooi-23 silence theme. After work, Jim and I were on the roof covering up furniture and exercise bike, making sure it's ready for winter up there. I put my telephoto on my D90 to try to get a detailed moon shot. I'm going to miss the roof (still accessible, but when it's cold and icy, it's tricky getting up there with camera and tripod safely. So I got a little carried away ... back downstairs about 100 photos later...
@elaine55@michaelelliott Thanks Elaine and Michael. I recommend the longest zoom you've got (obviously), cropping as much as you can (duh), and the trick is to use Sharpener Pro 3 which is part of Nik Suite - a plug I used in Aperture that works with a number of other editing programs as well. In Aperture, without Sharpener, I increase "definition" and "edges" which I assume has a parallel in LR and PS and other programs. Thanks for your kind words!
@michaelelliott Do you use a full frame or a crop sensor? I used a 70-300mm zoom, zoomed all the way up. I think there are two differences worth considering. First, on the full frame, the lenses are true to the mm so on my D600, my moon shots are with a 300mm. But on the D90 (the one here), it’s the equivalent of using about a 420mm. On the other hand, on my D600, the mp are 25- 30mp per file, so I can crop more. On the D90, each is around 12mp. The tradeoff is less length but more cropping. To compare, the image here is with the D90, so like a 420mm; the image here - http://365project.org/taffy/365/2013-11-10 - is on the D600, so a 300mm.
@michaelelliott If you're renting and using a tripod, I'd go for a 400mm and wait for a clear night. I know there is a huge zoom that is a 50 - 500 or something like that, which would let you catch both the moon and some of the skyline, as well as do moon-only shots. Have fun! I look forward to seeing what you do.
@wendyhgill Thanks Wendy! I do feel very lucky to have the rooftop -- it's been my go to place but now it's getting very cold up there and the stairs are slick when it frosts, so I suspect I'm not going to be able to use it as much til spring.
