1st effort at moon ....

[Hugh]

I couldn't resist taking a snap through the ep last night. Very basic but I'm quite pleased with the result as it was a hand held effort...

All I need now is a wedge a DSLR (and the patience of a saint )

All advice & comments gratefully received.

Cheers

Hugh

[Hugh]

Mmmm - this time with image - must try harder

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[GazOC]

Great start Hugh, its slightly over exposed but a cracking first shot.

I find its easier to under expose slightly and use software to brighten the image up.

[Hugh]

Thanks Gaz,

I've kept a couple of the less bright images, I'l see if I can tweak them in Photoshop (can't do much about the poor focus though).

[barkis]

Not a bad effort at all for a hand held exposure Hugh. You have the focus OK, but maybe a bit over exposed.

Try bracketing your exposures, as it is a difficult subject to get spot on. You can reach an optimum setting, then tweak where necessary afterwards.

Cheers.

Ron.

[Andrew*]

It's a good 1st effort. You should ahve seen mine :shock:

I hope you don't mind, but I had a go at getting some more detail out. Also saturated it a bit:

Cheers

Andrew

[Hugh]

Andrew, I don't mind at all, I would like to understand how you did it though, it makes a world of difference...

Cheers

Hugh

[Andrew*]

In Photoshop 6, I went Image>adjust>Curves... and played around with the line a bit. IIRC, I took it from 1/3 and 2/3 and dragged it towards the bottom right corner

Then I played around with Image>adjust>levels... and dragged the black arrow and the grey arrow to the right

Then I dragged the saturation bar (Image>adjust>Hue/Saturation) to +30.

Lastly I did Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen

In this case, changing contrast didn't improve the image at all.

Voila!

HTH

Andrew

[Hugh]

Thanks for the tip Andrew,

I'll have a play with my other images now

Cheers

Hugh