Hey all, Been a while since I dropped in here. So, I hope this topic hasn't been covered before, maybe it has...
Tonight I was outside my house looking up at a gorgeous night sky (it was about 11 pm here) and trying with my humble digital camera to take a few pix of the clouds and the moon, where a single star was shining over in the southeast (not sure which one that is!) It was beautiful. BUT, my camera isn't anywhere near powerful enough to handle anything so subtle. All it picked up was the tiny white dot of the moon, nothing else. I've tried this before, with the same poor results, and ought to know better! The only times I've ever gotten fairly good moon pictures was in early evening, when the sun had just gone down and was still giving just a tiny bit of light to the eastern side of the sky...which to me was a great help. When it's totally dark, however, the contrast of the moon is too bright for me to pick up the lovely edges of clouds fringed with moonlight...
Soooo, in frustration I dug up a 'bad' scanned image of a spring sky with some clouds in it, and I've been sitting up late trying to convert this into a credible night time scene. I will have to upload that to Photobucket so I can show it here... I'm wondering whether anyone has an easier method of converting images this way? I can't remember what all I used...contrast (several times), gamma correction, saturation adjustment... Finally I came up with something that looks pretty good even if it's still a bit more colorful than a genuine night sky usually is!
Any ideas on how to make this easier?
Off to bed now, TTYL.
Tonight I was outside my house looking up at a gorgeous night sky (it was about 11 pm here) and trying with my humble digital camera to take a few pix of the clouds and the moon, where a single star was shining over in the southeast (not sure which one that is!) It was beautiful. BUT, my camera isn't anywhere near powerful enough to handle anything so subtle. All it picked up was the tiny white dot of the moon, nothing else. I've tried this before, with the same poor results, and ought to know better! The only times I've ever gotten fairly good moon pictures was in early evening, when the sun had just gone down and was still giving just a tiny bit of light to the eastern side of the sky...which to me was a great help. When it's totally dark, however, the contrast of the moon is too bright for me to pick up the lovely edges of clouds fringed with moonlight...
Soooo, in frustration I dug up a 'bad' scanned image of a spring sky with some clouds in it, and I've been sitting up late trying to convert this into a credible night time scene. I will have to upload that to Photobucket so I can show it here... I'm wondering whether anyone has an easier method of converting images this way? I can't remember what all I used...contrast (several times), gamma correction, saturation adjustment... Finally I came up with something that looks pretty good even if it's still a bit more colorful than a genuine night sky usually is!
Any ideas on how to make this easier?
Off to bed now, TTYL.
All rightee, no problem... Be interesting to see what you come up
with!! Funny I never really thought about this before now...
