Setting moon

A few days ago, when I was getting ready for bed around 4:00 am, I happened
to glance out the window and noticed the color of the setting moon. I
grabbed my camera but was too tired and sleepy to set up a tripod or try out
various manual exposure settings. So I shot handheld with spot-metering
at -1 EV.

I lost the EXIF data while cropping and making slight adjustments to
contrast and brightness in bitmap with Irfanview (no noise reduction). Here
they are:

Pana FZ30
Spot focus, Spot metering (-1EV)
ISO80
f/4.0, 1/80sec
420mm equiv.

Shooting handheld half-asleep at 1/80 sec at 420mm, in low light with a
noisy P&S through thick hazy atmosphere close to the horizon is a recipe for
disaster, and the result is no better than could be expected. But at least
the hue was captured quite faithfully. Just wanted to share:
http://tinyurl.com/59e2jq


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