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<blockquote data-quote="Moab Man" data-source="post: 207291" data-attributes="member: 11881">The biggest problem I see in moon shots (IMO) is that they are overexposed and wash out the fine details of the shadows. We, to include myself for a long time, always want to show the moon very whitish because that's what we see in the sky; which is as we all know the light of the sun and not the moon itself. This was no particularly great moon shot - the basic: tripod, 300mm, crop mode on D7100, mirror up and remote shutter release. What I did was bring down the highlights and brought up the dark areas a little bit to find a more middle ground overall. This allowed the lighter parts of the moon surface to still be brighter, the craters to still have their shadows, and overall it just gave it more detail. Looking through others photos in this thread and I see some great shots (many I like better than mine) I really love, but I also see now where the detail is there but washed out. It was a bit hard mentally to push myself away from the beaten path of a bright white moon, but once I did I was rewarded with details in the moons surface.&nbsp;&nbsp; That's my two cents and thank you for the compliment Pat. Hopefully others might come to the dark side of the moon and see what I have found <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Moab Man, post: 207291, member: 11881"] The biggest problem I see in moon shots (IMO) is that they are overexposed and wash out the fine details of the shadows. We, to include myself for a long time, always want to show the moon very whitish because that's what we see in the sky; which is as we all know the light of the sun and not the moon itself. This was no particularly great moon shot - the basic: tripod, 300mm, crop mode on D7100, mirror up and remote shutter release. What I did was bring down the highlights and brought up the dark areas a little bit to find a more middle ground overall. This allowed the lighter parts of the moon surface to still be brighter, the craters to still have their shadows, and overall it just gave it more detail. Looking through others photos in this thread and I see some great shots (many I like better than mine) I really love, but I also see now where the detail is there but washed out. It was a bit hard mentally to push myself away from the beaten path of a bright white moon, but once I did I was rewarded with details in the moons surface. That's my two cents and thank you for the compliment Pat. Hopefully others might come to the dark side of the moon and see what I have found :) [/QUOTE]

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