i've borrowed a telescope, i'm hoping to get some shots with it tonight, i haven't got an adaptor for it, so we'll see how they turn out..
i've borrowed a telescope, i'm hoping to get some shots with it tonight, i haven't got an adaptor for it, so we'll see how they turn out..
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Mars was near the moon last night. I saw it at about 9pm but couldn't be bothered taking a photo. I'm sure everyone has seen photos of the moon.
And so follow a million identical shots.
These ones are full photos resized at different focal lengths just to show the zoom difference...
135mm
500mm
500mm plus 2 x teleconverter. This one was pretty soft, so it would probably be just as good to expand the size of the 500mm one.
Sigma 50-500mm and a Canon 28-135mm for the 135mm shot. I have a Jessops brand teleconverter which I bought in 2002 but it takes away a lot of detail.
It's interesting using live view and watching the moon move across the screen. Live view, position the moon so that there is a lot of space for it to move in to, manual focus, remote shutter release after waiting for the lens to stop wobbling.
GSte (31-01-2010)
yes mars was quite close to the moon. Only problem was that its impossible to expose for both at the same time - mars looks like a big star if you exposed for mars the moon as just a white blob of blown highlights !
Heavily cropped moon:
watercooled (30-01-2010)
watercooled (30-01-2010)
shooting through a telescope eye piece is frustraiting..
will give it another go tomorro
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bobster, how on earth did you get so good t taking pictures? im still a total newb when it comes to taking them, im pretty much shoot and point but would prefer top learn how to setup the iso and such, your pictures are amazing! i keep coming back each day just to see what you have next lol
I'm going to go with practice on that one, along with maybe some instruction, reading, and more practice. I can see the difference in my pictures after only a couple of years.
heres a shot from today: first time i've done any shooting for a while...
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Nice PP and light. I'd lose the vignette a bit though - you've blocked up the blacks in the corners. Compositionally it's a bit 'meh' from me - it's pretty but not much more.
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since 2003 i have taken approx 50,000 pictures with my 300D (yes it still gets used now and then )
one of my 20D bodies has over 230,000 clicks
and my 2nd 20D has over 150,000 clicks
so yeah practice, practice, practice, experimentation, a little reading here and there, lots of inspiration from other photographers and some instruction back when i was @ college; as in here's a SLR camera with a 50mm manual focus lens, here's some b+w film, this is how you change shutter and aperture - off you go
hmm you didn't take that shot, its not dark enough
shot from yesterday, practising shooting against the sun with my 50
Day 31
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