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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #45 on: October 30, 2015, 11:13:23 »
No mystery at all as the recipe is straightforward and simple. A fast lens (85/1.4 Nikkor in this case) set wide open and focused to its near limit, flash output reduced by at least 2 stops, rear curtain sync.

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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #46 on: October 30, 2015, 11:39:42 »


full moon western sky the other day

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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #47 on: October 30, 2015, 12:00:45 »
Blood Moon - September 28, 2015

Nikon D610 + 400mm f2.8 + TC-20E III

1/4 sec @ f5.6 

about 4.00 am - Madrid

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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #48 on: November 01, 2015, 03:00:44 »

Moon on its waning phase last night. With a position quite high in the sky, it was probably the best atmospheric conditions I have encountered in this series so far, and the 300PF with TC-14E delivers on the AW1. Exposure to the right reduced noise, -2 EV applied in post, only very moderate capture and resize sharpening applied.



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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #49 on: November 01, 2015, 03:20:02 »
A very tiny moon, shot with a fish eye from my sleepingbag.

The second fake moon is a headlamp in case you're wondering ;D


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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #50 on: November 01, 2015, 08:40:20 »
which of us wont like to actually walk on the moon ourselves..
but I imagine it would be boring - all our photos would like the same :)
OR NOT  - we will end up shooting one another
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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #51 on: November 01, 2015, 10:21:48 »
Oivind, you are really getting incredible detail!

Wonder what you could achieve with the new 500 or 800 on that camera?

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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #52 on: November 01, 2015, 13:01:57 »
Thanks Colin, yes I am certainly impressed by the resolution performance of the 300PF. I sort of predicted that for myself when the first MTF charts were made public, in the center 5mm radius both the 10 and 30 lines/mm are really squeezed together at the top of the chart, which benefit both small sensors and TCs.

I know of a certain forum member who has an AW1 etc. and might still have a 600/4 for evaluation...
... if atmospheric conditions cooperate....    ;)

That said these straightforward moon closeups are more of a technical task than a creative endeavor. And as a test subject it cannot show how bad a lens is, only how good it at least can be under the given atmospheric conditions. It is fun anyway.  :D

Jan Anne, I like the "cave" image, looks cozy in there.

Elsa, it should be the same possibilities for creativity and variability on the moon as in a barren desert here on earth, given a little mobility. Thinks about all  the different rocks. :)  It is just when capturing the moon here from earth that we all have essentially the same perspective and viewpoint, except for a little wobble of the moon, and the variation in lighting.
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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #53 on: November 01, 2015, 16:23:57 »


Elsa, it should be the same possibilities for creativity and variability on the moon as in a barren desert here on earth, given a little mobility. Thinks about all  the different rocks. :)  It is just when capturing the moon here from earth that we all have essentially the same perspective and viewpoint, except for a little wobble of the moon, and the variation in lighting.

You just burst my bubble.

on second thoughts - we would all be tied to the mothership for air supply -

the moon is only exotic as we cant get up there :)
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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #54 on: November 01, 2015, 16:28:06 »
Elsa, it should be the same possibilities for creativity and variability on the moon as in a barren desert here on earth, given a little mobility. Thinks about all  the different rocks. :)  It is just when capturing the moon here from earth that we all have essentially the same perspective and viewpoint, except for a little wobble of the moon, and the variation in lighting.

The low gravity up there could provide some interesting shots too :) 
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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #55 on: November 01, 2015, 16:29:18 »

The low gravity up there could provide some interesting shots too :)

 ;D ;D ;D imagine that....
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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #56 on: November 01, 2015, 18:23:17 »

full moon western sky the other day

I like your colors a lot, Fons.
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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #57 on: November 01, 2015, 20:56:01 »

The day after the second picture in my last post and two days after the first picture, the moon was full. Then I was on the way out of King Oscar Fjord and the rising moon stood over Kongeborgen


Kongeborgen by Asle Feten, on Flickr

In the morning the boat was passing the way out Davy Sound, and I was up before 5 for photographing, including this one of hte moon set at 5:19.

Davysund by Asle Feten, on Flickr

The sun rised out of the ocean one hour later, but that has to be an other thread.
There is no illusion, it just looks that way.

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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #58 on: November 02, 2015, 00:10:40 »

Thanks for posting these, Asle, I in particular like the second one. I will be looking forward to more images from this trip.
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Re: Show us your best moon images
« Reply #59 on: November 05, 2015, 07:42:38 »

A winter night in the Norwegian mountains:

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