The Moon

Shot this on August 30th 2023, it was time using the Sigma 150-600mm,

Leaning out a window and holding the camera without a tripod. This was the best picture out of the bunch…

Still needed a bit of photo editing to make it stand out more…

The following week I saw a half moon and decided to try again, this time with the 1.4x Tele converter lense which attaches onto the camera before the ‘Moon Bazooka’ aka the Sigma 600mm..

This boosts the maximum distance to about 850mm…

Which as the below picture shows does make a difference, this still was taken holding the camera albeit I did use the tripod though it wasn’t able to get a good position with the window opening and being able to have it on the stand properly. This was a raw image taken in Lightroom Classic and given the post processing treatment, AI de-noising helps to make things a little clearer, the final image shown below was a 50/50 blend of the de-noised version and raw color tweaked version. The original raw image isn’t that far off from this, though noisy and not as clear as you really do have to tweak the color levels get the most out of the picture.

I often shoot with the setting of saving both JPEG (in this case 9mb) & RAW (24mb), the original JPEG version of this picture is so misleading that you would not believe just how much lighting information it loses, it doesn’t even look like the same image. The amount of additional color and depth data that is kept in the RAW version and lost in the JPEG is alot. And when it comes to really extracting the most amount of detail out of an image like this moon picture you need that RAW version for post processing to work on. View page comparison slider