It's only a super moon...

[stubbsy]

To be honest I don't think the Supermoon lived up to the hype. Like others I was expecting it to be much larger. Anyways at least my iPhone app (Moon Seeker) told me where it would rise so I was positioned properly. Below are the best I have so far (many of my images are just not converting well to jpeg for some reason I need to track down - they are darker after conversion and I'm getting haloing and other artifacts).

Before:




During:



After:




You can see the jpeg issues I'm unhappy about in this

[Remorhaz]

Hi Peter - that sky in #1 is fabulous - we had it like that here in Sydney too - sweet pastel sky.

Agree the moon size was underwhelming (apparently is was only something like 1/6000th bigger anyway) but it was a nice evening, conditions great (clear skies) and the timing of moonrise and sunset was pretty sweet.

Are you using Lightroom? - I was noticing some wierd artifacting with my jpeg exports (for forum resize) recently as well. I wasn't getting darkening but I was getting blocking.

[ozimax]

Despite the artifacts etc, these are some excellent photos Stubbsy.

[surenj]

To be honest I don't think the Supermoon lived up to the hype.

I reckon some of these images (esp #1) look a little dirty. Perhaps it's the JPEG conversion issues?

#2 is the best that conveys a 'super' moon I reckon.

Were you using any teleconverters with your 150-500?

[stubbsy]

Were you using any teleconverters with your 150-500?

No teleconverter - just the bare lens.

I've now given up on getting these to save as jpeg. No matter what I do they end up darker and with haloing around the moon when I save them.

[surenj]

Have you tried 100% quality with 775 long side and sharpening -screen-medium?