Afternoon Moon & Night Moon RAYS

[Chazman1981]

HI
This is my VERY FIRST POST, i am a virgin to D70users.com.
here is 2 pics i took the first one is just on a stormy cloudy night and it was very difficult to get a photo of the moon cause of all the clouds getting in the way so i left the shutter open for approx 6sec and it left me with these multi coloured rays. Please give me some feedback wether that be good or bad



and



This second photo was just taken off my back deck,

My Own website is

http://www.fairdinkumphotos.net if it happens to take you there



i hope these links or photos show up, like i said its my first try.

[stubbsy]

Chazman

Welcome. You'll find things are both friendly and informative here.

You don't have the linking quite right. Here are the pics done the right way (you need to right click the photo and choose properties for the url to paste): have at look at this excellent thread for full details.

[stubbsy]

Now to the photos.

The first one is superb. I particularly like the streaking effect

The second one lacks a little punch to me and could possibly benefit with an increase in saturation - othwerwise it's well done. PS I'd also suggest you add your location to your profile so we know where on the planet you are

PPS You have some pretty good lightning pics in your gallery.

[Chazman1981]

Thanks heaps stubbsy your a life saver, yes i will go read that post and update my prfile abit more. i am in port macquarie

[Chazman1981]

HI
i am just re trying a picture again just to see if i can get this right after reading the tutorial.



This again is a lightning photo AGAIN taken off my back deck

[stubbsy]

Champion. Nailed it. Must have been the excellent instructions in the post

[big pix]

did I hear the crowd.......... no must have been dreaming....... back to the red

cheers
bp

[big pix]

sorry ...... welcome to the forum and I do like the movement pix...... they all could do with some saturation and contrast as peter has pointed out.....

cheers
bp

[WadeM]

Are you able to post the EXIF data for those photos @ all? Perhaps we might be able to get more punch out of the shot without toying around the backend???

I opened the second shot in photoshop, just to see how it would look...I did an auto levels adjust and a smart sharpen.

Below is how it looks....In my mind it goes from good to great (could be my touch tho?) [I'm sorry if you don't like me touching up your shot, I just wanted to see how it looked]



--Wade

[Willy wombat]

Below is how it looks....In my mind it goes from good to great (could be my touch tho?) [I'm sorry if you don't like me touching up your shot, I just wanted to see how it looked]


--Wade

She looks a little crunchy to me Wade

[PiroStitch]

Below is how it looks....In my mind it goes from good to great (could be my touch tho?) [I'm sorry if you don't like me touching up your shot, I just wanted to see how it looked]


--Wade

She looks a little crunchy to me Wade

Go the jpeg compression Reduce the compression by saving the jpeg around 90% considering you're jpeging a jpeg...

[WadeM]

She looks a little crunchy to me Wade

I reduced the picture quality big time , that's why.

I was trying to show the difference in colours in the whole shot and sharpness in the moon.

Are you able to see the difference between the two? (even tho my modification is blotchy?) I would prefer to keep the file a small size, as I use enough bandwidth up as is

--Wade

[WadeM]

Damn,

My mod is 3x larger then the original image (you just got me thinking, compression of a compressed image, would it work).

I'm going 2 do it again and save @ high quality.

EDIT: It's due to the file I'm trying to update being compressed to begin with. Even when saved with no compression, (tiff) it looks blotchy.

ANYHOW (side tracked :p) Can you see the colour and the sharpness difference between my version and the original?

--Wade

[Chazman1981]

yeah i dont mind if ya play around with em.........

i hadnt touched those images at all, i had only down sized them to throw on my wifes website, but yes i do agree they did need some more punch in them.

i played around with them a bit last night and made them stand out alot better. it changed my original .nef of 4.5meg to a tiff of 85meg and made my laptop stall for about 15minutes

i still have to adjust moon rays one though and see how that turns out

Cheers

[mudder]

[quote="Chazman1981"]... i played around with them a bit last night and made them stand out alot better. it changed my original .nef of 4.5meg to a tiff of 85meg and made my laptop stall for about 15minutes /quote]
G'day Chazman,

Firstly welcome to the forum mate and welcome to the wonderful world of PP

Moon shots are always good fun, and I particularly enjoyed the "moon rays" one, has almost a painted effect... Both could probably benefit from some saturdation, contrast and ISM (in Post Processing).

Cheers.