rising moon sickle, February 7th, 2011

IMO, this image would be better if in post you opened up levels in PS and took a black reading off of the tree line(?) at the bottom making for better contrast. Other than that, I would suggest trying an ISO speed much slower than 800 to minimize noise, which is abundant in this shot. Other than that, the detail in the visible craters seem to be pretty nice.

Nice shot Sam, I like the detail.

Jennifer,

thanks very much for your detailed critique & comments.

The 'tree line' are vague clouds.

It's the visible craters I was mainly interested in, a feature I'd never be able to photograph through the polluted & humid skies of NW Europe, where I'm from.

Cheers,

Sam

Jim,

thanks very much for your appreciation & interest.

Cheers,

Sam

hand-held shot