As you see I have moved from messing around with Photoshop to “straight shooting” with yesterday’s bottle brush and last night’s moon shown here.
Gary Winters had used my Canon 70 to 200 mm f/2.8 L lens while I was ‘down under,’ so this is my first time to try it out again.
Shooting the moon is easier in photography than it is in the game of hearts, but either way patience pays off. I tried several manual exposure settings and didn’t quite have it tack on. This one (one of 14) proved to be the sharpest with almost the right exposure.
However I think using RAW helped to recover some of the flaws. The image was exposed in 16 bit RAW. Using the Photoshop RAW sliders I reduced Exposure by -.60, Shadows raised to +21, Brightness to +24, and Contrast to +42.