NikonGear'23
Images => Life, the Universe & Everything Else => Topic started by: Mongo on April 14, 2017, 10:01:49
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Looking for birds with long lens gives rise to many opportunities for aviation photos. Took this image a couple of kilometres away late one afternoon. Mongo had not greatly noticed the background moon other than it was there until editing later. Looking closer, Mongo noticed the jet engines' hot vapour trail had optically distorted the moon behind. Interesting how the vapour trail gives the illusion of "stretching" the moon beyond its natural circumference
D4s and 200-500mm
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Very nice 👍🏻
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Mongo, that is a great capture, accidental or not.
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Great capture Mongo, thumbs up!
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Nice catch of a very big bird...
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Fantastic image
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Great capture, Mongo! Is the image cropped?
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thanks all - very kind of you to look in and comment.
Akira, yes, it is cropped. The original NEF file was 4928x3280. The Tiff final copy of this image was reduced to 2803x1827 (about 30%). The posted copy was reduced to 1200 pixels on the long side and prepared as a Jpeg for posting.
PS - about moon images as such, Mongo noticed that the best images he has managed have all been in the late afternoon and then processed accordingly. Others taken at full moon at night etc, have generally not turned out as well - usually too bright or lacking detail because of the nature of the light and its angle. In theory, the best light for this should be in a dark sky when the light is hitting the moon at about 30 to 60 degree angle. Mongo has yet to test his theory but tends to like sleeping at those hours of the night instead.
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Thanks, Mongo, for the disclosure.
I agree that the full moon will be a bit boring after you go through the phase of the pleasure to shoot it with a newly bought super-tele lenses. :D
Nowadays I try to include clouds of interesting shapes and/or city-/landscapes to shoot the moon.
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Lovely image Mongo.
And to follow on the conversation with you and Akira, some of my most beautiful memories of the moon have been whilst driving in my car, generally as the full moon rose over the countryside or cityscape.
In my mind I have taken some wonderful pictures (of course, I never had a camera with me on these occasions and would probably have struggled to find a place to pull over & shoot safely anyway).
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thank you Akira and Colin. I seems from our collective thoughts that the moon (as beautiful as it is), is often better photographed in context or connection with something else.