francois_quesnel

I find winter landscapes difficult to shoot because everything is in

shades of gray most of the time. I thought this was a nice break.

regards

Wow! thanks for all that info!  That deconvolution algorithm seems perfect.  I'll have to try it.

Good luck on your side

Thanks for the info, I'll have fun looking into it.  Reading the exif on your picture I noticed that at the day and time it was taken the moon must have been very low on the horizon.  The reddish tint of the moon and the wavelets on its edge also indicate strong turbulence and high refraction.  Waiting for the moon to get higher up in the sky (above 30 degres) will help in a couple of ways: it will bring turbulence down and make the moon brighter.  1/20 s at f5.6 is a very long exposure for a full moon.  Click on the link below to see a 1/200 s f/12 at iso 200 picture. 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12040214

Good luck

This is not a bad shot at all.  I find a bit of unsharp masking will go a long way with this king of pictures.  There are a number of softwares like Iris and Registax that allow stacking multiple frames of the same subjet to remove effects of air turbulence.  It will also greatly reduce image noise so you can pump up the iso a bit to get a shorter exposure time.   Iris has a "vancittert" function that does nothing short of a miracle on lunar or planetary pictures.  Unfortunately I haven't been able to make it work with Windows vista.  Look at this thread (in french but it's the pictures that count!):

http://www.parlonsphoto.com/viewtopic.php?p=950036#950036

Regards

François Quesnel

The sharpness, the trees the fog all help build a very moody scene.  Congratulations!  I personnally would have avoided the sand bar in the middle of the lake, but a great picture nonetheless.

François Quesnel

A shot taken on the side of the road, but looks like the middle of

nowhere...