#im frustrated i feel like the quality of my photos is actually decreasing the more i do this 😭

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tried out more moon photos. not too satisfied. i think the problem with how blurry my photos are comes from

A. zooming in on iphone (but if i were to use my next highest magnification some parts of the moon would be out of frame, and i didnt have time to experiment anyway bc it was setting behind my neighbor’s house)

B. literally whenever i tapped my phone to take a picture, it would blur like hell. just that small little movement ruined the entire shot. in fact, this photo is a screenshot of a video, the only way i could workaround that

C. but then that introduces the quality deterioration that comes from screenshotting, so. maybe i need a way to extract individual frames but in this case i think its negligible compared to points A and B

i did take a few videos, so i’m gonna fuck around and see if i can try stacking. however due to the minuscule movements caused by me simply holding my phone (bc i DO NOT trust my phone mount to hold my phone’s whole weight) i’m not sure if stacking will improve the sharpness or actually make it more blurry. idk

i’m also gonna try and get out again when the moon’s about half full, so i guess in one week. i’m wondering if simply having more surface area will let the maria be more visible than they are here. but the sharpness is still an issue thats eluding me