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 08/14/2005 07:14:27 AM · #1
I am so excited.... first time for me in my 4 years in Seoul to see this moon, not to mention a clear moon;-) (shot less than 30 min ago)


Message edited by author 2005-08-14 07:15:01.
 08/14/2005 07:26:24 AM · #2

Nice clear shot of the moon. There's some interesting colours in there too, rather than the typical BW shot. It looks great. Did you recolour, or was this straight from the camera? Also, I'm interested to know if you took it with a long zoom, or did you take it through a telescope?

08/14/2005 07:32:04 AM · #3
It's great, love the definition and colour too. I never tire of looking at the moon.
The circle of craters top centre reminds me of a fairy ring.
 08/14/2005 08:16:49 AM · #4
Originally posted by surfdabbler:
Nice clear shot of the moon. There's some interesting colours in there too, rather than the typical BW shot. It looks great. Did you recolour, or was this straight from the camera? Also, I'm interested to know if you took it with a long zoom, or did you take it through a telescope?


Thanks for the comments. I shot this moon with my 100-400Canon, and no, no color added and not B&W, it is as it came out of the camera with a crop and a little USM... amazing and very satisfying.
 08/14/2005 09:04:32 AM · #5
Thats a great shot. You hit the exposure right on. Great work!
 08/14/2005 09:22:13 AM · #6
WOW!!! That's a great shot. I've tried to shoot the moon and I don't even come close to that kind of quality.
 08/14/2005 09:38:28 AM · #7
That ain't easy to do and you nailed it! WTG! Fantastic shot!
 08/14/2005 09:49:47 AM · #8
i alos took a photo tonight i live in Australia, Queensland, Brisbane heres my photo it aien't as good and what is USM?

08/14/2005 09:52:21 AM · #9
USM = UnSharp Mask

I downloaded your image and applied a slight sharpen (7) and then unsharp mask (.5, 150, 0) and it brings out more of the surface detail. However, since the image has already been compressed there is not much to work with. Apply these to your original image and you should see much more detail of the surface.

Message edited by author 2005-08-14 09:56:31.
 08/14/2005 09:52:42 AM · #10
USM, is "Unsharp Mask" I have no clue why it's called that. I don't have PS, and even if I did I'd still not have a clue why it's called that, since USM actually SHARPENS the picture not UNsharpens it.
08/14/2005 09:55:07 AM · #11
It's called 'unsharpen' because of the film equivalent, which I believe uses a duplicate layer that's slightly blurred to negate from the original. Hence edges get sharper.
 08/14/2005 10:03:06 AM · #12
PaulMdx, thanks I'm still confused though. It just doens't make sense to me. Maybe if I was any kind of photographer other than a point and pray kind I'd have a clue.

Don't worry too much about my confusion though, I'm used to it.
08/14/2005 10:05:05 AM · #13
What unsharp mask does is it takes value channel of the image, blurs that to a specified degree to produce the unsharp mask. That mask is then substracted from main image, and contrast is stretched to compensate. It works something like this: V' = (V - x*U)/(1 - x), where V is the value of the image pixel , U is the unsharp mask pixel, and x is degree of sharpening applied (0 .. 1.0).
 08/14/2005 10:06:40 AM · #14
Very nice moon. My moon usually comes out tooooooo bright.

KS
 08/14/2005 10:20:03 AM · #15
Originally posted by gibun:
I am so excited.... first time for me in my 4 years in Seoul to see this moon, not to mention a clear moon;-) (shot less than 30 min ago)

Outstanding moon shot, to be sure, but I'm stuck on your statement that it's the first time "to see this moon, not to mention a clear moon." Does that mean you've had cloudy skies for the past four years?? Is Seoul worse than Seattle??
 08/14/2005 11:23:48 AM · #16
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Originally posted by gibun:
I am so excited.... first time for me in my 4 years in Seoul to see this moon, not to mention a clear moon;-) (shot less than 30 min ago)

Outstanding moon shot, to be sure, but I'm stuck on your statement that it's the first time "to see this moon, not to mention a clear moon." Does that mean you've had cloudy skies for the past four years?? Is Seoul worse than Seattle??


Interesting question. Pollution is a real problem in Seoul, I sometimes see a full moon and then it is an orange color, have a look in my portfolio, also in that pic it is as from the camera. Tonight, after the bad weather all of last week I was actually surprised to see this moon, the 9th day moon. Seoul must be more polluted than most I think.

edit to add 2 moonshots.
A normal Korean Full moon, no color added.
A moonshot in South Africa where there are no pollution.

Message edited by author 2005-08-14 11:26:57.
 08/14/2005 12:49:35 PM · #17
yea what he said. V' = (V - x*U)/(1 - x) Now I totally understand
 08/14/2005 02:06:54 PM · #18
Originally posted by gibun:
I am so excited.... first time for me in my 4 years in Seoul to see this moon, not to mention a clear moon;-) (shot less than 30 min ago)

Very nice shot! Wow, the Korean moon looks just like the moon here in the U.S.!
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