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Strange Border around moon

Aug 9, 2012 2:05 AM

Tags: #lightroom #development #moon

Hey everyone,

 

I took a picture of the rising moon. The moon was moving quickly on the sky so I had not much time to do the camera setup and had to do some Lightroom-adjustment of exposure. When I was satisfied eith the result I had to find, that a black border around the shapes of the moon had appeared (see attached picture, http://flic.kr/p/cNr24U). I was shooting RAW with a Pentax K-x, Sigma APO 70-300mm, Lightroom 3.2 was used on a Macbook Pro Retina with OS X Mountain Lion.

 

Would be very thankful for helpful responses

 

http://flic.kr/p/cNr24UChris

697 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: Rob Cole, Aug 9, 2012 12:39 PM
 
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  • Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață
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    1. Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață,
    Aug 9, 2012 2:33 AM   in reply to nudelgeist92
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    Turn down Fill Light and/or Highlight Recovery.

     
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  • Rob Cole
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    2. Rob Cole,
    Aug 9, 2012 3:27 AM   in reply to nudelgeist92
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    Consider upgrading to Lr4/PV2012.

     
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  • Phil323uk
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    3. Phil323uk,
    Aug 9, 2012 6:11 AM   in reply to nudelgeist92
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    How much cropping have you done for the final image?

     

    On 35mm film or a full frame sensor a 300mm focal length lens would produce an image of the moon of less than  3mm diameter.

     

    Did you adjust first then crop or crop then adjust?

     

    Images of full Moons with  foreground detail aren't easy to produce.

     

    How much adjustment did you have to do to get your result?

     
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  • nudelgeist92
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    4. nudelgeist92,
    Aug 9, 2012 6:31 AM   in reply to Rob Cole
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    Thanks for all the quick responses.

    How would upgrading help? Does LR4 have the ultimate feature or algorithm improvement I would need?

     

    I adjusted the image and then cropped it.

    The original image (see attachment) was basically black with a large bright yellow spot, so there was a lot of adjustment necessary. The general idea was to put in a gradient filter to reduce the brightness of the moon while leaving the foreground untouched and then to brighten up the darker parts in the histogram to get the foreground visible. Highlight recovery is at zero already.

    http://flic.kr/p/cNvXxQ

     
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  • Lee Jay
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    5. Lee Jay,
    Aug 9, 2012 6:47 AM   in reply to nudelgeist92
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    nudelgeist92 wrote:

     

    Thanks for all the quick responses.

    How would upgrading help? Does LR4 have the ultimate feature or algorithm improvement I would need?

     

    Actually, it does.

     

    What you're seeing is caused by the fill light tool.  LR4 uses an entirely different process version called PV2012 that doesn't have the fill light tool, and uses an entirely different approach to handling shadows and highlights that doesn't have this problem.

     
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    6. Rob Cole,
    Aug 9, 2012 12:39 PM   in reply to nudelgeist92
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    nudelgeist92 wrote:

     

    How would upgrading help?

     

    What Lee Jay said... - this problem was close to 100% solved in PV2012.

     
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