Ian,
I'm wondering if you have any suggestions for how I might have done a better job with this? It's not sharp enough and had a lot of noise. I used Topaz Denoise and Sharpen, which helped some. I shot this on Sunday at 7:35 when the full moon would rise over the Five Mile Lighthouse in New Haven. I shot it from Savin Rock, which is 3 miles away. Because of the distance I used my 800mm but that is the Canon fixed 800mm f11. I can't afford the f5.6 model at $17,000! The moon rises fast and PhotoPills says you should not go longer than a 1 second shutter speed or the moon will blur. With those two settings fixed, my ISO was a whopping 12,800. My camera was the R5. I was on a tripod with a shutter release. The photo is not too bad on social media but awful when I go to 100% in PhotoShop. It isn't sharp. I have 3 possibilities in mind: perhaps I didn't get the focus sharp enough as the lighthouse was so far away, maybe the tripod moved although I was using a shutter release, and perhaps it is from atmospheric haze. Would appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. Would I have been better off using my 100-500 although that is f7.1 at the long end?
I ran it through Topaz Denoise and Sharpen. It certainly helped but it’s still not great. It was on a tripod and IS was turned off. Perhaps my focus was off. It was very far away.
Hi Frances, I am planning a PRO live webinar, if you can attend, would it be okay to discuss this during the webinar? I think it could be an interesting teachable moment for everyone. Let me know if that would be okay, I will be sending out an email today with the webinar details. If not, of if you can't attend the webinar, I'm happy to address your questions here.