Moon - handheld

evacguy

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These are a few shots of the waxing gibbous moon, hand held, but taken through the trees (for effect?) on a cloudy night. I was shooting during the cloud breaks, but I think there may have been some high clouds in the shots. Images taken in London so Bortle 8 skies. These are taken with the Sony A7iv + Sony GM 70-200mm f2.8 OSS II, so have cropped in quite a bit. I'm only using LR classic for post-process. Which do you all prefer, the colour or the BW. For the first colour image, there are two BW options, and for the second colour image, only one BW option.
moon_3nov22-1.jpg
  • ILCE-7M4
  • FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
  • 188.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 1/200 sec
  • ISO 500
moon_bw_3nov22-1.jpg
  • ILCE-7M4
  • FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
  • 188.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 1/200 sec
  • ISO 500
moon_bw_3nov22-2.jpg
  • ILCE-7M4
  • FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
  • 188.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 1/200 sec
  • ISO 500
moon_3nov22-2.jpg
  • ILCE-7M4
  • FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
  • 188.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 1/200 sec
  • ISO 400
moon_bw_3nov22-3.jpg
  • ILCE-7M4
  • FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
  • 188.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 1/200 sec
  • ISO 400
 
I prefer the B&W, but then again, I always do for lunar photography.
 
I preferred the black & white shots. Maybe that's because my earliest recollections of pictures of the moon were also black & white.

Why 188 mm instead of 200?
 
I like to see the moon in colour. For mine, I can never decide what colour!! I tend to push the colour too heavy. Maybe that tells me something.
 
Nice shot! In this case I prefer the color. When shooting the Moon I often desaturate it to make it B&W. I'll even do it as a simple cheat when doing star fields especially if the lens I'm using shows too much chromatic aberration.
 

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