|
Post by nikkortorokkor on Apr 19, 2008 1:55:56 GMT -5
OK, these shots ain't art, but I was mowing the lawn between storms and I noticed all the clouds had disappeared and that big 'ol moon is out bright and clear. With snow down well below a thousand metres yesterday (about 3,000 feet) I reckon we'll be getting a frost tonight. That means these'll be the last tomatoes off my raggedy old end of season plants. Can't complain though, we've had a great run 'til now. The moon, BTW was taken on the Oly C-750 P&S, zoom extended to 300mm equiv, 1/800sec @ f3.7. Hand held with ISO set on auto. Oh, & for you northerners, the moon photo is NOT upside down, that's the way it looks from down here (or up here, depending on your geopolitical point of view).
|
|
|
Post by renaldo on Apr 19, 2008 15:35:54 GMT -5
The sights of a moon and its different location up there, are just mind boggling. Yes...I know people have been to the moon...but still from down here it is a great sight. Yeah...and the sights the astronauts have seen from the moon...!!
Did you get the lawn mowing done at all??
|
|
PeterW
Lifetime Member
Member has Passed
Posts: 3,804
|
Post by PeterW on Apr 19, 2008 17:03:06 GMT -5
Hah, Michael, Up here (or down there maybe to you) we've got the spring and summer with nice warm photo weather to look forward to - though it wasn't all that springlike in the south east UK today with traces of hail in the wind! I hope summer 2008 will be longer and finer than last year here. I'm really looking forward to getting out and about with a camera. Last year summer was come and gone almost before the weather even got very summery. Oh well, hope springs infernal in the human beast. PeterW
|
|
SidW
Lifetime Member
Posts: 1,107
|
Post by SidW on Apr 19, 2008 17:37:43 GMT -5
... Oh, & for you northerners, the moon photo is NOT upside down, that's the way it looks ... Michael, I don't think I'd've noticed, green cheese is green cheese. But there are astronomers on the forum who'd know. I must admit, I've tried many times to take the moon but never as successfully as this. I'd better stick to moon-raking. Lawn-mowing by moonlight? Moon-shining? Pity we can't recirculate tomato plants, we'll be looking for some in the next few weeks.
|
|
|
Post by nikkortorokkor on Apr 21, 2008 17:03:52 GMT -5
Yes, I got the lawn mowed (it's not that big). I wasn't working by moonlight though. It was late afternoon/evening. I took the photo of the moon at dusk.
The sky looks black in the picture because I exposed for the moon. I had never taken any kind of satisfactory photo of the moon until reading an excellent article on EV by Fred Parker (http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm#Light%20Intensity%20Chart) which includes an EV chart.
When taking the photo, I couldn't remember what the EV of a full moon is, as given in Fred's chart, but I did remeber that it is much higher than I expected.
I first tried taking this photo on 1/1000 @ f3.7 & ISO 50. That was a little under-exposed for my taste, so I tried 1/800 @ f3.7, as you see here. My handy EV calculator (i.e. a Hi-Matic 7) tells me that's about EV14, which, now that I look it up, coincides with Fred's chart!
I keep promising myself that one day I'll go out with a film camera, an EV chart and no light meter to really get to "know" light (I border on dyscalcula -numerical dyslexia- so this is a big challenge).
OT Even though I did a short stint of tomato picking in the tropics, I didn't realize that tomatoes are perennials until I heard a garden expert on the radio. Here in temperate, maritime-climate NZ, (4 seasons in 1 day) outside tomatoes are always a hit and miss proposition. Despite late spring frosts this has been a great year for 'em.
|
|