Tonights Moon, with something extra - 11th Dec

[jgs001]

A crop from 250mm, handheld

1200mm on the 80ED using the OM mount 2xTC

And Finally... Coloured @ 1200mm

[michaelmorris]

I love the last, high saturation colour image. It's very good.

[Ant]

I love the last, high saturation colour image. It's very good.

Me too, that one is great!

How do you do the colour..?

[barkis]

Great shots John. I agree on the colour one, lovely job.

Ron.

[jgs001]

Thanks guys. Ant, in Raw Processing. I shoved the Saturation to Max, pushed the Vibrancy up to about 30% (although in Aperture it's called something else). Passed the image to PS, and then cranked up the saturation several times. There's a tutorial here.

[ChrisEdu]

Nice shots, again! Have you had fewer birds lately? My feeders seem to be a lot less busy.

[SteelRat]

Good shots John 8) Nice work on the colour job

[Dave Smith]

Thats really nice, I also like the colour version - must give that a try.

Dave

[jgs001]

Thank you Gents.

Chris, not particularly, although the starlings appear to be laying off a bit. A few tits this morning. The light is too rubbish to get any shots though. Even at ISO1600 I'm barely getting 1/80.

[Jeff RV]

Nice sharp Moons John, particularly like the colour version.

Jeff.

[ChrisEdu]

Thank you Gents.

Chris, not particularly, although the starlings appear to be laying off a bit. A few tits this morning. The light is too rubbish to get any shots though. Even at ISO1600 I'm barely getting 1/80.

It must just be the feeders that I made then! Hardly seen any birds lately.

1/80 at ISO1600 is pretty damn poor lighting! It made me laugh at the Nikon Expo how one of the speakers pronounced ISO and ASA. I'd say them letter by letter, but he was making them into words which sounded very weird.

[jgs001]

Maybe the feed ? We got very little on the feeder till we tried some Wilkinson's Robin Food. Then swarms turned up.

And that was with the aperture wide open, well f5.6... which at 250mm, is as wide as the 55-250 gets.

[gary1968]

Very nice jgs001, I particularly like the last one to, great colours.

Gary

[Viking]

I have added the link, that John has provided, into the Primers and Tutorials section of Astropedia.

John

[Sam]

Great shots John!

[jgs001]

Thanks guys.