Original Photography: To the Moon!

in #photography8 years ago (edited)

The moon is a favourite subject for many of us. It seems it can always be done a little better than your last try. The contrast between the lit moon and the earth at night is pretty big, and atmospheric haze creates problems photographing from earth. A great photographic challenge in other words.

This particular photo of the full moon is interesting because it was shot with video (on a tripod) - RAW video with Magic Lantern on a Canon EOS 5D II - using an EF 100-400mm L lens. I used 240 of the best frames from the sequence and median stacked them in Photoshop in order to eliminate atmospheric haze and random image noise to get a 'superresolution' final file, in 32-bit floating point color space no less. The colors are natural, but heavily enhanced in order to see the various mineral deposits.

Hope you like it. Follow me @photomathias for more like this.

Supermoon in Superresolution, 32-bit color (1:1 crop)
(Click photo for much better quality on Flickr)

Photo by: http://www.mathiasvejerslev.dk
My Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mvejerslev/
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Thank you! I updated the post with lens information - I used an EF 100-400 L Lens @ 400mm.

Honestly one of the best photos of the moon I’ve ever seen....Beautiful

Wow thank you very much :-) I think I can do better with a telescope. There's always that next frontier.

Wow, amazing image! Thanks for the idea to stack moon shots :)

Very few people are able to get the color. Well done!!!

wow that is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing!

Wonderfull ! I've also photo of moon, follow me :)

Thank you! Great stuff on your blog - following! :-)

Thanks lot!