Fullest moon of 2009

[JustJess]

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This was what the news said would be the fullest moon of 2009. I shot this from my front yard. I had to shoot this hand held (tripod was broken at the time) as I rested my arm up against the corner of the fence. I had tried many times before shooting the moon (sometimes with alright results but majority terribly blown out). In this shot the moon was slightly blown out so I adjusted curves to bring down the brightness slightly. Shot with Canon EOS Rebel Xsi and Tamron 70-300mm lens. For some reason after resizing I have slightly lost some sharpness here.
Link to better quality image
http://www.jpgmag.com/photos/1389872

[Celestron]

Thats very nice ! When you enlarge an image do so by increasing the resolution , not the image size . That will come automatically . But becareful not to over do it . It can cause pixelation and noise .

[Performance Imagery]

If you are still blowing you moon out, up your shutter speed. It will cut the light and reduce lens shake.

[Electric Shepherd]

Nice shot! I've just had some great feedback on watching my exposure for moon shots too, generally it needs to be far less than you might think.

Here's my tweak of your shot to bring the moon down a bit:

[JustJess]

YES! How did you do it? That is what I was trying for...I could get the moon looking better but at the expense of losing the trees being lit up as they are.

[Electric Shepherd]

Thanks! Hopefully I can just about remember what I did, I used several layers. First off a curves adjustment layer to reduce highlights, than a brightness/contrast layer to reduce brightness and increase contast [-50, +25 respectively IIRC], then a hue/saturation layer to reduce yellow saturation [by around -25] and boost blue saturation and brightness [+40, +40? I think], a levels layer with a little tweak of the midtones slider followed by a mild dose of high-pass sharpening [radius 1] and that was it I think.