Moon on 12/01/2018

[JimFox]

Driving up to Cambria, we had stopped briefly in Santa Barbara and I saw in the early morning light that the moon hadn't set and was still up in the sky. So this is one of my first outdoor photos taken with the Tamron 150-600mm G2 on the Nikon D850. I ended up shooting some Full Frame, but then also shot a few in Crop mode. This one is a Crop mode shot which I then cropped a bit more. It was taken at 600mm.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Tom Narwid]

Driving up to Cambria, we had stopped briefly in Santa Barbara and I saw in the early morning light that the moon hadn't set and was still up in the sky. So this is one of my first outdoor photos taken with the Tamron 150-600mm G2 on the Nikon D850. I ended up shooting some Full Frame, but then also shot a few in Crop mode. This one is a Crop mode shot which I then cropped a bit more. It was taken at 600mm.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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Excellent....nice detail at the bottom of the terminator.

 

[JimFox]

Excellent....nice detail at the bottom of the terminator.

Thanks Tom! It's nice to have some longer reach to capture it.

 

[AlanLichty]

Looks like you are having fun with your new toy Nice detail.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Hi Jim, did you do this hand held? I probably did over half my 500f4 and 700 f5.6 hand held.

 

[Colorado CJ]

Very nice. I like the color on the face. That lens looks like a real winner!

 

[Mike Lewis]

Jim,

Nice result, that 600mm is getting the job done. I would try playing with dropping the background level (and cranking up the contrast) a little bit. Not to the point of a black sky, but to add some contrast and then likely add some more visible detail. The moon is almost monochromatic too, so you might try seeing this as a B&W as well, just for comparison's sake.

 

[JimFox]

Hi Jim, did you do this hand held? I probably did over half my 500f4 and 700 f5.6 hand held.

Thanks Ben, yeah it was just a real quick hand held. I took 6 shoots of the moon, half full frame and half in DX mode. The VR on this Tamron is off the charts good.

 

[JimFox]

Jim,

Nice result, that 600mm is getting the job done. I would try playing with dropping the background level (and cranking up the contrast) a little bit. Not to the point of a black sky, but to add some contrast and then likely add some more visible detail. The moon is almost monochromatic too, so you might try seeing this as a B&W as well, just for comparison's sake.

Hey Mike, Alan had made the same suggestion on my last moon shot last month. I guess I left it like this because that's what it looked like. It was a daytime moon shot, so I wanted to keep that feel. Maybe it's baby steps with these. I certainly don't mind cranking up the contrast a bit in my landscape shots, but so far with the moon I have been wanting to keep it exactly like it looked to my eye.

This is a real low rez jpg, but if you want to play with it and give me an idea about what you are talking about, I am all for that.