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Registered: June 2006 Location: Boulder CO, Powell WY Posts: 1,897
Mon January 22, 2007 8:14pm
Good shot Stu. One thing that I have tried out for lunar and solar shots that has worked out well for me is to take multiple exposurese and add them together. In PS open up four or five exposures and pick one of them as your base layer. Set the transparency to 20 or 25% depending on how many layers you will add. Add each of the other ones to this one the same way, setting transparency. This way it evens out the distortions from wind and whatnot from the long exposure time.
Another thing I have tried as I did in this picture (http://www.photographyblog.com/gallery/data/504/moon.jpg) is: Open up the photo in PS, and create a duplicate of it. On the duplicate do a gaussean blur of about 25-30 (if using the full resolution on the 350D) Lower the brightness of the blurred duplicate a bit and "subtract" it from the original, then adjust the b&w levels until it looks right. (It is an old version of the 'unsharp mask' feature, only much more accurate) It usually gives it a lot more detail.
-- Tim
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Registered: November 2005 Location: North Devon Posts: 8,795
Mon January 22, 2007 8:21pm
Rating: 10
I'm not sure i understand the above comment i got confused after the first sentance,but brilliant shot
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