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Full Worm Moon 03-08-2020

Taken from my back yard.

Taken from my back yard.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

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Aperture f/8 ISO 100 Shutter 1/60 Focal Length 600/1

location

Mesa, Arizona, US

upload_date

Mar, 2020

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outstanding capture sir ,excellent detail .

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Thank you, sir. I wish I could have waited until tomorrow night, but we're supposed to be clouded over. So tonight it had to be.

Super capture

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Thank you.

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Very Nice! How did you get so much detail? I took mine at the same ISO, aperture and focal length, yet you got so much more detail. I'm in Illinois at about 800 ft. Could it be your air is clearer?

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Thank you. Mesa, Arizona, is at 1,240 feet altitude. That is one possibility. Another is our relative dryness compared to the Midwest; I think the humidity was around 40% and ambient temperature was about 60 when I took the photo. I have found that moon photos work better in my setup using the Canon 5D's 'Live View', where I lightly tap the moon's image on the touch screen. The final possibility is lens. I use a Tamron 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 lens. It is big, heavy, and must be locked tight into a solid tripod. It has always provided me with razor sharp images. I crop the image to a 1:1 aspect ratio in Lightroom, and I have created mu own Lightroom preset for moon photos that puts me in the ballpark for final adjustments to exposure, contrast, detail, etc. I hope this is helpful.

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Thank you. I truly appreciate the compliment.

i have tried to get beautiful photos of the moon like this but i seem to fail miserably. absolutley stunning capture.

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Thank you. I tried for 40+ years to get a good moon photo. It finally took a combination of good camera, good lens, solid tripod, the right camera settings, and careful editing in Lightroom.

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Thanks Steve. I use a Sigma 160-600 f5-6.3 DG OS Contemporary lens. It was a bit humid when I took it and I was surprised when it worked as well as it did. Now you’ve given me a goal to work toward!

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Thanks - I appreciate your input, Richard. I lived in the Chicago area for a time back in the 70s, and I know how the humidity can get in the way of atmospheric clarity. Phoenix is wonderfully dry most of the year; for us, 60 pct humidity is uncomfortable!

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Hi, Richard. Sorry to be a pest, but I noticed one difference in our settings: you set your shutter speed at 1/250th, while I used 1/60th. Your camera has a much higher resolution than mine, and I wonder if you simply weren't allowing enough light to hit your sensor. Of course, this was a very bright moon, and I had to back off the exposure slider in Lightroom and increase the contrast slider to maximum. Just a couple of thoughts. Stay well.

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I did notice your shutter speed and was going to try that and the Lightroom Settings. Also, the Live View angle is interesting too, so I’ll check that out too. Thanks for the tips. I’ll let you know how it works out. Maybe I’ll visit my sister in Tucson during a full moon. ;-)

Fabulous!

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Thank you. I truly appreciate the compliment. This full moon was almost too bright; I have another moon photo titled 'Moon Over Mesa From My Back Yard' that I think is better than this one because it was not so overwhelmingly bright and had better shadows.

This is very cool.

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Thank you. This is my third moon photo on ViewBug. It was so bright, it made the post-processing difficult. I have another moon photo titled 'Moon Over Mesa From My Back Yard' that I think is even better than this one because it wasn't so bright and had great shadow details.

Wow! And that's how it's done!

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Thank you.

awesome shot

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Thank you, Nikki. I appreciate the compliment. This moon was so bright, it almost overpowered my camera's sensor. I had to dial the exposure way back in Lightroom.

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Excellent capture! Keep up the amazing photos! I also checked out your settings and use about the same iso, shutter speed, aperture and still lack the crispness and details. I live in Lakewood which is at about 6,100 feet and have the exact Tamron lens but have a Nikon 7500 camera. I have yet to delve into Lightroom or any other processing and perhaps this is the difference. Sounds like you would recommend it? Ron

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Thank you, Ron. This was the 'Worm Moon' from last March. It was so bright, I had to back off the exposure in Lightroom. The one trick I learned with my Canon that improved my moon photos was to use the touch screen shutter release instead of the normal one. I always shoot in RAW. Once I get the images into Lightroom, I convert them to B&W, then crop at a 1:1 aspect ratio. I have a new one that I posted just last night that came out better than this one, IMO. Over the course of editing moon shots in the past, I have developed and saved my own custom preset in Lightroom. That speeds up the editing process: last night's photo took only about 2 minutes to edit. I hope this is helpful. - Steve

What lens did you use to get such clarity?

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I use a Tamron 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 lens zoomed out to 600mm. In some comments above, I go into detail about my settings, shooting and editing techniques.