W5JCK
Senior Member
Crescent Moon with earthshine on 9 April 2019 captured with Sony a6000 and Canon 400mm f/5.6L USM lens. This image is a HDR composite created from bracketing seven photos at 4 sec, 5 sec, 8 sec, 10 sec, 13 sec, 15 sec, and 20 sec shutters.
The images were tracked and the sky according to the Astrospheric app was Cloud Cover at 0%, Transparency at Average, and Seeing at Below Average. The very thin high clouds actually seemed to enhance the light coming off of the crescent. This time I actually remembered to use the Lunar setting for tracking--I forgot to do that last time.
The photos were captured between 20:32 and 20:34 CDT, so about 25 minutes after sunset. I had to take them then because that was the only time window I had when the Moon was visible due to tree foliage.
I used Lightroom CC to merge the seven photos into an HDR composite and then edited the DNG file it created. I then exported the DNG as two TIF files. Normally I export my Lightroom files to 16 bit TIF using the AdobeRGB (1998) color space, but this time around I also exported a 16 bit TIF using the Display P3 color space since I use Macs for my processing. I then used Photoshop CC to finish the processing and to slightly reduce the image size to 4K (2160 pixels x 2160 pixels) and saved each version to JPEG. I am posting both versions here just to see if they look different on your monitors. I use a MacBook Pro 15" Retina so they both look identical. Your monitor might vary though.
Display P3 color space JPEG
AdobeRGB (1998) color space JPEG
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Best Regards,
Jack
AP Focusing Tips: http://w5jck.com/nightscapes-focusing.html
Website: http://w5jck.com/nightscapes-gallery.html
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackswinden
Sony RX100M3, a6000, and a7
The images were tracked and the sky according to the Astrospheric app was Cloud Cover at 0%, Transparency at Average, and Seeing at Below Average. The very thin high clouds actually seemed to enhance the light coming off of the crescent. This time I actually remembered to use the Lunar setting for tracking--I forgot to do that last time.
The photos were captured between 20:32 and 20:34 CDT, so about 25 minutes after sunset. I had to take them then because that was the only time window I had when the Moon was visible due to tree foliage.
I used Lightroom CC to merge the seven photos into an HDR composite and then edited the DNG file it created. I then exported the DNG as two TIF files. Normally I export my Lightroom files to 16 bit TIF using the AdobeRGB (1998) color space, but this time around I also exported a 16 bit TIF using the Display P3 color space since I use Macs for my processing. I then used Photoshop CC to finish the processing and to slightly reduce the image size to 4K (2160 pixels x 2160 pixels) and saved each version to JPEG. I am posting both versions here just to see if they look different on your monitors. I use a MacBook Pro 15" Retina so they both look identical. Your monitor might vary though.
Display P3 color space JPEG
AdobeRGB (1998) color space JPEG
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Best Regards,
Jack
AP Focusing Tips: http://w5jck.com/nightscapes-focusing.html
Website: http://w5jck.com/nightscapes-gallery.html
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackswinden
Sony RX100M3, a6000, and a7
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