One of the pictures I took during last eclipse. Taken with K3-III with 150-450 telezoom from tripod. Hard thing is not to blow out the part out of Earth’s shadow and still bring out the dark eclipsed part.
I do not feel I have reached an optimum of removing noise and maintaining sharpness here. Not very experienced in this part of developing astro pictures. Neither do I think I’ve maintained all details in the light part trying to keep a natural look.
How would you develop this picture? Regardless which software used… Kind regards Jetze
Interesting stuff here! Thanks for all reactions so far!
Thank you for the compliment! Very possible GIMP will be my next step of learning. I have it installed but decided first to invest quite deeply in darktable. You managed a good contrast, (nearly too) vivid colors and still quite some noise left.
You got very far into what I want, will study your version’s .xmp in detail, promising! Thanks.
Nice version too, thanks for that! And now I would love to know what you’ve done to get this result
Thanks, your capture of the Moon looks very good, I like the subdued approach you’ve taken. [Maybe share your picture and .xmp as well here? I would certainly not mind you doing so… ] Thanks also for your processing of my picture, as mentioned before I will in detail look at the .xmp to see what you’ve been doing to get to this result. It’s is very close to what I hope to accomplish.
Thanks all for taking the trouble and giving me your time. And still hope for more input…!
Strange… When I load your XMP file I can only see the black background. In the demosaic module, there is no option for “match greens” selected. If I set it to any option, the image looks ok, then.
Which version of darktable are you using?
Pity deekay, probably version, mentioned in my opening message.
I, for this occasion, just downloaded both your and wpferguson’s scripts for importing .xmp files.
Thanks, Jetze, Actually, I was addressing dqpcoceas with my question, but now I see that I get the same effect with your XMP, as well. So I assume this is caused by an incompatible change in the demosaic module (because of capture sharpening, I guess).
Here is my attempt. I wasn’t worried by the highlights in the image as they contrasted with the shadow. DT has many noise options to use, but I mainly focused on a little bit of rawdenoise with a low threshold of 0.003 as it is a balancing act of softening vs noise. I also used two default instances of denoise (profiled). I use two instances a lot when I have noisy images. It seem to reduce noise without losing too much detail. _K317000.DNG.xmp (13.0 KB)
In gimp I have the nikCollection plugin (from when it was free) and I just did one instance of define. Hard to get the noise from the edges of the moon though. Great picture!
Thanks for the reply. I ignored the noise as it does not distract from the visual effect, I am still using GIMP 2.10 because I have a number of my plug-ins which I find very useful, particularly luminosity and saturation masks.
