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I think the Moon glow brightens what are very thin clouds making them seem moor prominent; yet they don't have enough substance to show up on the face of Luna.iamlucky13 wrote:That's what I was trying to decide. On a nice, regularly-shaped object like the moon, it's not hard to fiddle with the contrast and stuff on just that area of the picture, possibly making the haze disappear that way. Or it's possible that the moon is just bright enough to wash out any of the haze that would otherwise appear across the disc.
I definitely don't think the moon was merely pasted in, but it's remarkable how it stands out against the sky. And I've never seen that color of sky around a rising moon.
The photographer must've had a huge lens for the photo...at least 400mm, probably around 600mm.
I think the sky in that photo is orange from the setting sun in the western sky, which means that the sun is in front of the camera, so what's shinning on the moon to make it full?geckzilla wrote:I imagine that it is orange for the same reason the sun turns orange when its light shines through the atmosphere near the horizon.
StACase wrote:I think the sky in that photo is orange from the setting sun in the western sky, which means that the sun is in front of the camera, so what's shinning on the moon to make it full?geckzilla wrote:I imagine that it is orange for the same reason the sun turns orange when its light shines through the atmosphere near the horizon.
Questions questions questions questions!
When you are facing a full Moon, the Sun is behind you. If you think that a sunset (or sunrise) can't make the opposite horizon red as well, you haven't seen many!StACase wrote:I think the sky in that photo is orange from the setting sun in the western sky, which means that the sun is in front of the camera, so what's shinning on the moon to make it full?
It's not mere lore. I've definitely been out working in the fields late at night by the light of a full moon....is popularly called the Harvest Moon. According to lore the name is a fitting one because farmers could work late into the night at the end of the growing season harvesting crops by moonlight.
There've been quite a few on APOD:Chris Peterson wrote:When you are facing a full Moon, the Sun is behind you. If you think that a sunset (or sunrise) can't make the opposite horizon red as well, you haven't seen many!StACase wrote:I think the sky in that photo is orange from the setting sun in the western sky, which means that the sun is in front of the camera, so what's shinning on the moon to make it full?
This coming Friday October 25th moonrise coincides nicely with sunset, look it up on your favorite website, anyway if it's clear and I remember to do so, I'm headed for the nearest hilltop with a good view to the east to see if I can come close.BMAONE23 wrote:I believe that if the second to the last image were taken about 10 minutes earlier and zoomed to the same apparent magnification as "Saguaro Moon", the sky would be light enough that the effect would have been dramatically similar
I don't think I have to play a defendant role. But please allow me some
annotations:
1. The red/orange/yellow color of a Sunset is *NOT* caused by the Sun, but
by the atmosphere. The same colors happens with the Moon. However, the Moon
is not as bright as the Sun, so mostly the eye can't see the colors very
well, but the camera does. You can try by yourself with every digital camera
and Moonrise or -set.
2. The biggest problem to make a photo like this is the depth of field. This
is the reason why I used a telephoto lens instead of a telescope. A
telephoto lens you can stop down easily to increase the depth of field
(making sharp cactuses as well as a sharp Moon). With a telescope, you
cannot do this that easy.
3. Those Saguaro cactuses are really huge. The bigger ones are more than 10
meter tall! That means, they are far away. And that means, it was possible
to place the cactuses as well as the Moon in the depth of field.
4. When I made the image, the Moon was around 12 hours after Full Moon. The
Moonrise was after Sunset but still in the dawn, of course.
5. The location, where my image was made, is 32°15'42" N / 111°12'34" W (if
my recordings are correct). It is in the Saguaro National Park near Tucson,
AZ.
6. You can try that kind of image by yourself: Buy a Canon EF 600mm F/4 L IS
telephoto lens and a good tripod. Wait until the Moon around Full Moon has a
declination of -28° and go to the place I mentioned. Be prepared, because
you don't have much time to shoot the Moon at the right place to the right
time. Don't use the Autofocus, because you have to focus to a point between
the Moon and the hill.
7. With the technique I mentioned it is possible to make such images. And
yes, my image is processed. But not even more then others do processings on
their holiday pictures.
8. I appreciate all questions about any images. But I can't understand that
hype to have a general suspicion about every (good locking) digital image.
There's different degrees of photoshopping. Many enhancements, like brightness and color balance, are similar to film techniques and subtly alter the photo. Others, like using the clone tool, remove defects that arguably aren't real but are part of the photo nonetheless. Both of these are very common techniques used by professionals. Still others (photochops, etc) create false images.JohnD wrote:Why would a serious astronomical photographer, publishing on his own site, be PhotoShopping?
