waxing crescent moon

[rdking647]

[William Seger]

1. Very nice!

I like the sepia treatment -- I'm totally stealing that.

What lens did you use?

[rdking647]

5. 150-600 with a 2x teleconverter on a crop sensor camera

effective focal length 1800mm

no sepia treatment,just a little underexposed in camera (intentionally)

[William Seger]

6. I shot this a few nights ago

... with a 500mm lens. It was also intentionally underexposed, but it looked like a black-and-white photo until I used the sepia filter on it:

[flamin lib]

2. Yeah, now that's a moon!

My own attempt. Think I like your moon better. Better cropping and better color.

[William Seger]

7. Very detailed. What lens did you use?

[flamin lib]

8. I'm shooting OMD EM I mk II and this was the 300 f4 with the matched 1.4x.

That's the equivalent of 840mm ff. I also use the camera body's digital 2x (crops to 5 meg and resizes in camera to 20 meg) which gives me 1680mm equivalent.

To be honest it's not the equipment (well, maybe a little) it's the seeing conditions. I'm 30 miles north of Fort Worth which is far enough out to lose some of the light pollution and the air was cool (60's) and still.

[William Seger]

9. Nice! I'm under Class 6 light pollution myself

... and the air wasn't very still when I took my photo -- the shimmering made it hard to focus. But I just recently learned that I'm only about an hour away from some Class 1 sky, so I'm waiting for a good night to have a go at Orion, Andromeda, and the Pleiadies. I've tried from here, and while I'm very surprised and impressed with what can be done with stacking, I'm sure clear skies will be awesome.

[flamin lib]

10. If you're looking for advice ask rdking647 'cause he knows dark sky

photography and what it takes to make some awesome images. Orion is spectacular and as large as the moon but Andromeda is kinda far and faint.

There's nothing quite so inspiring as peering into the depths of the cosmos and feeling part of it.

We are star stuff . . .

[William Seger]

11. Yep, I saw his spectacular Andromeda

That's what inspired me. I know he's using both a star tracker and image stacking. I'm thinking about getting one of these mechanical trackers: Omegon MiniTrack LX2. It's gotten very good reviews on YouTube.

[Pobeka]

3. Nice color, contrast on this one.

There's not a lot of moon shots I like, but this one is well done. Has nothing to do with the sharpness of the image, it's the overall tone that appeals to me.

Good work!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Omigod, this is amazingly beautiful!

Love the color and the way the craters show how the moon curves.

Just gorgeous.