End of the Eclipse

Missed the Blood Moon, but woke up at 4 am and put a jacket on and went out to catch the end of the eclipse. Wanted detail so spot metered at -1.
Still made a mistake for somehow the ISO was at 800 and therefore lots of background noise. Always a judgment call on brightness vs. detail. I went with max detail. Placed lower right since moon was beginning to set and lower in the sky.

[Dawn]

hmmmmm I dont see the noise.....do you shoot RAW Tom? I find a lot of the noise can be taken out in post.

[Tom]

I do shoot raw and jpg. When I tried to remove noise in lightroom lost detail. So went to photoshop elements 8 selected background and adjusted levels darker. not happy since if would have shot at ISO 100
would have been better.

[Krista Marson]

I think you did a great job. At ISO 100, you probably wouldn't have enough light and this image would not have turned out at all.

[Dawn Ulmer]

It's good!

[Tom]

@blueberry1222 Thanks Krista, the shots afterward with the tree branches dropped ISO 400 and less noise. Next time I will use a tripod and drop down to 200 or 100. If in the right spot maybe long exposure with ND filter!!

[Tom]

@deu49097 Thank you Dawn hope to get up to the North Shore soon
and do some long exposures of moon and p/u the lake.

[Molly]

It's a terrific shot. Interesting to read your comments and those of others on the process.

[Molly]

I've just looked at Alexis Birkill's shot of the eclipse. He used an ISO of 3200 - if you haven't seen it you might be interested in his technical details: http://365project.org/abirkill/365/2014-04-15

[Alex]

Another interesting picture of the eclipse of the Moon!

[Richard Sayer]

He actually used an ISO of 6400... but I think your shot works brilliantly Tom.

[Tom]

@dolphin Hi Molly not that into post processing prefer to get in camera as much as possible

[Tom]

@vignouse Thank you Richard I am not into post processing. Want it in camera as close as possible although I just downloaded topaz 3.2 which has a lot of 1 click presets. That is more my speed.

[Davie]

Awesome shot, Tom. You've captured amazing detail and I see no evidence of noise...bloody brilliant and a fav.

[Tom]

@davie Thanks Davie for the comments and fav

[Laetitia Petrussa]

Jealous! There was nothing to see here. Great moon shot!

[Tom]

@laetitiapetrussa Thank You Laetitia

[Khawbecker]

Great moon capture!