Happy Moon Festival!

Hey,

Tonight's the night the most reflection (of the sun, of course) off the moon of the whole year! Basically, gaze and admire the beautiful moon!

Munch on mooncakes!

Just stare at the majesty, you don't even need any equipment! I'm going to try to capture some of that magic with my new (to me) Sigma 70-300APo (thanks Tyger!). Happy Mid-Autumn!

Happy Moon festival right back at you. As if it was meant to be, I took a shot of the moon tonight from Sweden and this is what I got when I cropped the picture in 100% (sigh, why dont I have a longer lens?). Shot with 1/200 s @ f/8, 100 ISo and with my 200 mm lens. Another 800 mm and it'd be fun!

(the smaller moon in the corner is the actual size of the moon recorded by my camera.. not much fun to look at when it's that small!)

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I'm stuck watching the Emmy Awards with wifey. Maybe I'll sneak the tripod and the 500 f/4 out later. Thanks for the 'heads up.'


Nice shot, Petra.

Here's my try at it, using my just purchased 70-300APO. It really strained the lens, it's very soft but I couldn't ask the little one for that much!

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Yeah, stop down, and use faster shutter speed. I used 1/200 @ f/8 at 100 ISO and didn't do any post processing at all (except that extreme crop of course).

But you're right... the moon is amazing and it doesn't need to have its picture taken all the time.

works like a charm cyberpet. Interesting to see the view of the moon on your side of the globe vs. our side of the globe

here's one from tonight....makes me wish i had a telescope.

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Tyger, yeah it's kind of amazing to see. And it's even more freaky to see it from someone in Australia, it's upside down!

Here's a look of the moon from Pennsylvania, just a skip and a hop south of Toronto. Not much of a difference as far as the orientation of the moon goes.

100-400L @ 400mm f/8 1/400 ISO 200
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That's kool, hopefully someone from the other side will post a shot!

KevC, That lens is capable of shooting a good moon shot, try the specs CyberPet suggested, i'm sure you'll get simliar results.

Wishing I had a 100-400mm


Nice one bro!

PacAce, mind sending that little lens on a world tour, like to Sweden? *grins evil*

Okay, here's my attempt with the 500 f/4 w/1.4X TC.

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belmondo, looks like a great image, but you did go too heavy on the sharpening. Can I have your lens too?

CyberPet wrote:
belmondo, looks like a great image, but you did go too heavy on the sharpening. Can I have your lens too?

Thanks, Petra. If you come to the desert, you're more than welcome to use it.

That was a 'quck and dirty' job last night. I used 'smart sharpen' in CS2, and I agree that it's a bit heavy. I will probably go back and redo it one of these days. I was basically pleased, though.

is the moon actually a space ship? or a giant ball? see Petras pic? at the bottom there is a "button" or "dimple" and then there are "seam" linse running from it around the moon.... I wonder.....Hmmmm.
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