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UKBob said:
Nice pics guys.
I grabbed this with my G5 and 8x extender
Not a great photo but it sells well. And It moves bloody fast when you're trying to shoot it with a tripod too.
I grabbed this with my G5 and 8x extender
Not a great photo but it sells well. And It moves bloody fast when you're trying to shoot it with a tripod too.
I have tried a tripod, but as you say, it DOES move quite fast, especially when you have a large zoom, the one above of mine was hand held, Probably around F4 and 1/160th or 1/200th.
megy said:
UKBob said:
Nice pics guys.
I grabbed this with my G5 and 8x extender
Not a great photo but it sells well. And It moves bloody fast when you're trying to shoot it with a tripod too.
I grabbed this with my G5 and 8x extender
Not a great photo but it sells well. And It moves bloody fast when you're trying to shoot it with a tripod too.
I have tried a tripod, but as you say, it DOES move quite fast, especially when you have a large zoom, the one above of mine was hand held, Probably around F4 and 1/160th or 1/200th.
elliotdavies said:
Full moon coming up thurs / fri in the uk, i will be snapping a few shots if the sky is clear to test my new x2 II extender on the 300L IS
here is one of my last pics taken
here is one of my last pics taken
Think i might have to crack off a few frames tonight too, although i find a full moon too flat, and something nearer a half to have more impact as the sun on the craters and contours of the moon creates better shadows.
tonyvid said:
I think we are in for a funny coloured moon tonight so good opportunity if it is clear.
Partial eclipse.
www.space.com/spacewatch/060901_lunar_eclipse.html
You guys should check out:
See: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap06
"This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images from my Canon EOS-20D (unmodified), taken in Raw mode and converted and stitched together in Photoshop CS2. As you can see from the EXIF data, the exposures were each 1/5 second at ISO 100.
Though the moon is generally made of gray, dusty material it is very bright, photographically, since it is bathed in sunlight.
I mounted my 20D to my Meade LX200 GPS UHTC 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope via my 2x Televue Powermate (a focal length doubler, similar to a teleconverter, which also serves to mate my camera to the 2" telescope eyepiece tube). Effective focal length was 5000mm f/20.
Looking through the viewfinder I swept across the surface in a zig-zag fashion, trying for about 1/3 overlap between frames. I triggered the shutter with my TC80-N3 remote timer/controller. I did the stitching by hand in Photoshop.
Since it is tremendously downsized from the original mosaic, which was almost 40 megapixels, and was taken at the camera's most noise-free setting (ISO 100), the data is very accurate, and thus I was able to strongly increase the saturation via Photoshop's Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation function."
See: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap06
"This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images from my Canon EOS-20D (unmodified), taken in Raw mode and converted and stitched together in Photoshop CS2. As you can see from the EXIF data, the exposures were each 1/5 second at ISO 100.
Though the moon is generally made of gray, dusty material it is very bright, photographically, since it is bathed in sunlight.
I mounted my 20D to my Meade LX200 GPS UHTC 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope via my 2x Televue Powermate (a focal length doubler, similar to a teleconverter, which also serves to mate my camera to the 2" telescope eyepiece tube). Effective focal length was 5000mm f/20.
Looking through the viewfinder I swept across the surface in a zig-zag fashion, trying for about 1/3 overlap between frames. I triggered the shutter with my TC80-N3 remote timer/controller. I did the stitching by hand in Photoshop.
Since it is tremendously downsized from the original mosaic, which was almost 40 megapixels, and was taken at the camera's most noise-free setting (ISO 100), the data is very accurate, and thus I was able to strongly increase the saturation via Photoshop's Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation function."
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