Dean Ginther  


Moon by Dean Ginther

February 2025 - Moon

About the Image(s)

The last few weeks I have not been doing any photography but I still wanted to submit something current. The last couple of nights the night sky has been very clear. I noticed there was a waxing crescent moon tonight (32% illumination) so I took a few images of that about a half hour ago.

Sony A7RV, F8.0, 1/80, ISO 320, Sony 200 - 600 zoom, manual focus, manual exposure on a tripod.

I didn't include the original since the only changes I made were to crop in and sharpen.


2 comments posted




Pierre Williot   Pierre Williot
Nice and sharp with plenty of details.
Is it frequent in Chicago to see the moon laying down? - This is pretty unusual rotation where I live (by the east end of Lake Erie.
I would have liked to get more details in the really bright bottom portion of the moon (even if I did not detect any "burned" pixels). I tried to work on it (decrease highlights, decreased whites, graduated ND filter, increased contrast, etc...., but was not able, on this jpg version, to help much.
Did you perform a bracketed exposure? I find that I have to underexposed the moon significantly to get the details on the bright edge.
Very nice image - Just a suggestion.
  Posted: 02/07/2025 20:43:32



Dean Ginther   Dean Ginther
Actually, this photo was taken just west of Austin, TX so that may explain the orientation since I didn't rotate it.
It is easy to over exposure a moon image because the light meter doesn't measure well in the very bright/very dark situation.
Sometime I bracket and sometimes I take an exposure, view it, and then adjust until I get what appears OK to my eye. I did the later on this one.
I messed around with the original raw file a bit, per your suggestions. I think it is better.   Posted: 02/07/2025 22:19:48
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