Re: [APML] Zapping moonlight glow with PS

[Emmanuele Sordini <vega@ulisse.it>]

At 17.21 01/04/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Emmanuele,
>
>You can use curves to darken the background. The problem is the loss of 
>S/N. To get the wispies on film under moonlight, the only thing you can do 
>is stack. The blue component of moonlight washes out the tail, which is 
>mostly blue. Sorry.

I'd bet it... but I can not zap the Moon, can I? it's better a 
moonlight-flooded comet picture than none at all :-)) And if weather allows 
for it, I'll have some more chances to shoot the comet in a moonless sky in 
the next days...


>Or, if you'd be satisfied with B&W film, you could use a swan band filter 
>during the exposure.

That could make do, but what kind of B&W film should I use? I mean, since I 
don't have any way of hypering TP or getting a hypered roll, I should turn 
to such films as T-MAX or HP5. Could it be worth a try?

Emmanuele


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