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    Re: Photo-a-day

    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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    Re: Photo-a-day

    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.

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    Re: Photo-a-day

    Can't wait to see what you can do with it Bobster.

    Here's one from last night with my 55-250....



    And some more that I've taken recently.... could really do with a longer lens!






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    Re: Photo-a-day

    And so follow a million identical shots.




    These ones are full photos resized at different focal lengths just to show the zoom difference...

    135mm



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    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.


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    Re: Photo-a-day

    I like yours, they're much sharper.

    Which lens did you use for those?

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    Re: Photo-a-day

    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.

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    Re: Photo-a-day

    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 !

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    Re: Photo-a-day

    Heavily cropped moon:







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    Re: Photo-a-day

    I made a macro flash ring for the onboard flash using some cardboard and foil today. It works ok, but a mirror reflecting down on the object would probably work just as well.


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    Re: Photo-a-day

    shooting through a telescope eye piece is frustraiting..

    will give it another go tomorro

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    Re: Photo-a-day

    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
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    It was so small that mine wouldn't fit into it

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    Re: Photo-a-day

    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.


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    Re: Photo-a-day

    heres a shot from today: first time i've done any shooting for a while...

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    Re: Photo-a-day

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by brammers View Post
    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.
    thanks for the critique... the vignette i was umming and ahhing about myself... asked the mrs. and she said with...
    yeah, its not the most interesting of shots... but then i never meant it to be

    another from this morning:

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    Quote Originally Posted by razer121 View Post
    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
    Quote Originally Posted by Ruggerbugger View Post
    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.
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by mmh View Post
    heres a shot from today: first time i've done any shooting for a while...

    hmm you didn't take that shot, its not dark enough

    shot from yesterday, practising shooting against the sun with my 50


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