05 April 2012

The Moon, Again

With the full moon and a clear sky last night, I couldn't resist taking a few moments:

400mm @ f/11, 1/800s, ISO 200
In the raw processing, I added about 3.5 stops of exposure and did some denoising.  This lost a little definition, but the atmosphere was definitely getting in the way of a noiseless shot.  After the import, I applied very slight curves adjustment and an unsharp mask.

The 400 really is a swell lens.  I shot at f/11 to see if I could get a sharper image than I've gotten shooting at f/5.6, but it doesn't appear to have made much difference.  This isn't too surprising, since I'm shooting a crop sensor and holding pretty steady in the center of the imagine.

This was shot hand-held.

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