Watch out - they will soon be emptying it! It is just before full moon, and the date is Tevet 13, 5775. The moon is very handy for the Hebrew calendar. You just have to look up (on a clear night) and you know the date. I took a series of photos just now, using different exposure times. The moon is as bright as any sunlit landscape, for comparison with other photos. This is a selection of 3 different settings. They have been cropped (to remove an expanse of black sky), and tweaked in 2 ways. Firstly, by changing the contrast range. This makes the greys a bit darker, so that the features are more obvious. Secondly, by adjusting the gamma, again to darken the greys to make the features more obvious. Finally, I did a tweak of the hue, which artificially gives a colour enhanced version. his picks up some subtle colouring in the image, and makes it more obvious. This image size is the limit of my Canon Powershot camera, which I have found to be the best of its type. Over Christmas, the newer model was available in Argos for only £119:99, less than half what mine cost a few years ago. The settings were ISO 100 (equivalent film speed); f8; and 1/100 to 1/160 second exposure time; lens zoom equivalent to 840mm.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:47:10 +0000