I saw the moon again this morning

[jgs001]

clear as a bell the sky today.

How could I manage to resist,

this glorious sight above me.

I used the C80ED on a tripod,

Put the camera up the spout,

with the 2x teleconverter,

to fill the frame with lunar light.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Sorry to inflict Vogon poetry on you all (NOT!!!!) This hasn't been cropped.

[barkis]

That is just Bootiful John. How do you get such great sky colours.?

Ron.

[jgs001]

Cheers Ron, it was shot at about 0800 this morning. With the combo of scope and TC I lose quite a bit of light, thus the quite slow shutter speed, then in RAW processing, a boost of contrast and a couple of other small tweaks. The processing was only done in Aperture, no PS work at all.

[Doc]

Colour of the sky is wonderful and to leave the empty space on the right is just perfect.

[jgs001]

Cheers Mick, that was a bit of a challenge getting the position right but it was worth it. This was using my portable static camera tripod, and it's not really rated for 2.5 Kg of scope and camera.

[Psychobilly]

Great image John,

The younger generation of "pro's" keep criticising me for framing in the camera as they now shoot wide and crop with their multi mega pixel DSLR's .... I know a few who don't bother keeping their lenses that clean as well as they just clean them up in the post processing...they never had to cope (and possibly couldn't anyway) with the limits of shooting 35mm transparencies...

thats that of me chest!

Billy...

[Sam]

Nice shot John!

[michaelmorris]

That's a really beautiful shot of the Moon; very atmospheric (no pun intended)

[jgs001]

Thanks All. Billy, I try to frame correctly in camera, but I don't always see the point. Some times I have to crop to get the image scale I want, in which case I'll crop to frame as well.

[SteelRat]

Really sweet lunar capture John 8)

[saturn5]

Colour of the sky is wonderful and to leave the empty space on the right is just perfect.

That'll be the "Rule of Thirds".Great image John.

[jgs001]

Thanks S5