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Photo of the Day - November 2020
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Triffids!Through the Glass
X100t f8.0 125 ISO200 - While inside the park arboretum enclosure - spotted these two through a window glass.
This is beautiful, Molly. Add me to the list of those who have been inspired to try this!
What a beautiful place to walk. Having somewhere like that is certainly an incentive to get some exercise
Above Manchester this time...another pseudo-CGI creation
Grabbed during a short break in the interminable clouds. Not as sharp as I would like due to the moon being low on the horizon and very gusty wind. The colour is also a result of the low altitude.
Crescent moon by another scotsman, on Flickr
Grabbed during a short break in the interminable clouds. Not as sharp as I would like due to the moon being low on the horizon and very gusty wind. The colour is also a result of the low altitude.
Crescent moon by another scotsman, on Flickr
I almost took a photo of the same thing the last 2 nights, but it's been so low on the horizon that the trees and light pollution got in the way. Also it was a little hazy last night.Above Manchester this time...another pseudo-CGI creation
Grabbed during a short break in the interminable clouds. Not as sharp as I would like due to the moon being low on the horizon and very gusty wind. The colour is also a result of the low altitude.
Crescent moon by another scotsman, on Flickr
Looks like you got a good one, though.
what focal length do you use to shoot this cgi trickery?Above Manchester this time...another pseudo-CGI creation
Grabbed during a short break in the interminable clouds. Not as sharp as I would like due to the moon being low on the horizon and very gusty wind. The colour is also a result of the low altitude.
Crescent moon by another scotsman, on Flickr
Cheers @mollyc. Taken with my little Canon EOS M3 (24MP APS-C) with a 480mm f/6 then heavily cropped, around x3. Tripod with 1/125s at iso200 to get a reasonably short shutter to minimise motion blur. Raw file sharpened a bit then exported to jpg.
Looking out the window at moe snow, I decided to go back to early July. Taken in our front yard.
First of what will undoubtedly be many experiments:
Eye Level
X100t f2.8 60 ISO200 - eye level with a park tree stump house
X100t f2.8 60 ISO200 - eye level with a park tree stump house
I bought the Sigma 150-600 earlier this year but haven't tried a moon shot yet. Your focal length on a crop frame will be a little bit longer but I should be able to get close. Certainly closer than my previous max of 200mm.
This image makes me want to try. ? Good job with your CGI. ?
Earlier in the year when it was warmer I kept thinking I'd go out on the deck some night when we had a full moon and take a moon shot with the Bazooka, now that I've got the tripod set up with the gimbal, but have not gotten around to that yet or a few times when I might have been motivated, it was cloudy, so no go.
Personally, the other moon phases provide more pleasing/striking pictures due to more sidelight across the surface giving better crater/feature definition. Full moon illumination is far flatter. A bit like landscape photography here on Earth. Cold winter nights are better due to lower atmospheric disturbance and lower humidity both of which generate a hazy image.
600mm even with full frame will give good results, the higher the sensor resolution the better for cropping. What really counts is the number of sensor pixels per arc-second of view.
Use manual exposure with a fast shutter speed, below say 1/100. Aperture around f/6. My EOS R will autofocus very well with my 70-300mm lens but manual focus using magnified live view also works well. Careful not to overexpose. Daylight white balance (irrelevant if you shoot raw).
Have a look at some of my previous moon postings and you can see that the moon actually has colour- easily lost if overexposed.
Not hard to do if weather permits. Clear Skies as the Astro bunch say.
It is hard when you live in a neighborhood surrounded by tall trees. And when we were on vacation there was barely a moon at all.
One day! Thanks for the tips.
Cheers
Hugh
Seems they know about “social distancing” ???
Trouble with Astro photography is its best done on a clear winters night. But they are exactly the sort of nights I like to stay in with the heating on and a nice cup of tea!
