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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / Australian Photography / August 2007Shooting the Lunar Eclipse?
Anyone out there shooting/about to shoot the eclipse? I'm not that motivated or equipped for anything much - I don't do looong tele work normally. And as for those hackneyed 16-exposures- going-across-the-sky-showing-the-entire-event? - well, I only just got home from work and it's already 1/3 of the way through, and besides, it's too much hard work getting the right exposures (or taking lots of shots to be sure, to be sure).. Lazy sob that I am. The best I can reach out to (optically, of course) is about 450mm equivalent, but that's on a fairly small (1/1.8") 9Mp sensor. Maybe I'll give it a go at totality just for fun.. So... who's out there doing it properly (1DS III with L glass maybe? :o), and are you going to post some results here? (And I'm not really knocking the multiple exposure technique - just jealous of those with the patience!!) I'd look forward to Roger Clark's contributions but does he get to see it? - I think only western US can view it..) I just went out to look again, and it's about 7/8 eaten here... 7:45pm local Qld (AEST) time but sadly some high level cloud is fuzzing it out, so maybe no photos.. > Anyone out there shooting/about to shoot the eclipse? > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > local Qld (AEST) time but sadly some high level cloud is fuzzing it > out, so maybe no photos.. 400d 75-300 on tripod with crying baby in arms didn't work out too good even with timer set...oh well > <mark.thoma...@gmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > 400d 75-300 on tripod with crying baby in arms didn't work out too good even > with timer set...oh well And here it was high cloud giving a lovely variable (but strong!) soft focus effect that made photography pretty much impossible. Ah well, next time. >> Anyone out there shooting/about to shoot the eclipse? >> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >400d 75-300 on tripod with crying baby in arms didn't work out too good even >with timer set...oh well Had a shot at it.... reasonable results considering the moon does actually move pretty fast... Shot from my bedroom with my window open in Sydney's inner suburbs. Shot on my 30D with 2x teleconvertor and 70-200 f/2.8 L lens. Tripod and remote cable used naturally. http://www.pbase.com/infra_photography/image/84629359 http://www.pbase.com/infra_photography/image/84629360 http://www.pbase.com/infra_photography/image/84629361 > ><mark.thoma...@gmail.com> wrote in message > >news:1188294400.737387.233320@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com... [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > http://www.pbase.com/infra_photography/image/84629361 Some good shots there, Greg, especially the second one. Well done. It is very dark, very difficult to get any image at the moment, I am trying but will got some better ones as it is relit a little I hope. > Anyone out there shooting/about to shoot the eclipse? > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > local Qld (AEST) time but sadly some high level cloud is fuzzing it > out, so maybe no photos.. On Aug 28, 7:46 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > Anyone out there shooting/about to shoot the eclipse? > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > local Qld (AEST) time but sadly some high level cloud is fuzzing it > out, so maybe no photos.. I made a quick grab... may go back out during the tail end and see what I can get. This was with the 70-200 2.8L and 1.4x and then cropped... http://www.potd.com.au/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/MoonAndFriends_MG_4752.jpg Exposure was 1/8 @ f4 3200ISO. I didn't bother with any noise reduction as I thought it would mask the detail too much. Also, I chose to use the 20D and not the 1Ds2 for this, as the 20D offers greater pixel density.... that is, if I shot this with the 1Ds2 and then cropped it the same, there would be less megapixels making the image. cheers Rusty http://blog.pixelpix.com.au > On Aug 28, 7:46 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > Rustyhttp://blog.pixelpix.com.au If anyone's client is giving them and anti-leach result with that link, you will need to copy and paste it to your browser. Just had a look outside and the back half is not as nice as the first.... there is a very defined shadow line and not much red. I guess the angles are all wrong now and I wish I had given it some time before. :-( >>On Aug 28, 7:46 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > guess the angles are all wrong now and I wish I had given it some time > before. :-( It wasn't as good as out last one. > > On Aug 28, 7:46 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > If anyone's client is giving them and anti-leach result with that > link, you will need to copy and paste it to your browser. The link is too long for Google groups to display. Maybe you should find another method to prevent people downloading your images or stop posting links to them? It doesn't work BTW. You can still suck as many as you want. Doug > > > On Aug 28, 7:46 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > > Doug > > > On Aug 28, 7:46 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > > Doug Well I will post this one again... the first time I hit the send button by mistake and second time the message did not appear?? So sorry everyone if you get the following twice. http://tinyurl.com/2p8knw That link should be Google friendly... I hope. re downloading images.... I don't bother with anything to prevent people downloading images, since there is nothing that can stop them anyway. (A screen grabber thwarts everything) So basically I adopt the position that I would rather have my images downloaded a few times, than have them not seen at all. Having said that, I don't post links to full size images either. > On Aug 28, 7:46 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > Rustyhttp://blog.pixelpix.com.au Nice work, although the noise is a bit of a problem - would have been interesting to see how different the 1DS was.. I didn't get anything useful - the high cloud let me watch, but fuzzed the image out too much. Link worked fine for me, just had to copy it to avoid the anti-leach thingy. D-Mac clearly isn't quite up to that level yet.. On Aug 29, 7:38 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > Nice work, although the noise is a bit of a problem - would have been > interesting to see how different the 1DS was.. > > I didn't get anything useful - the high cloud let me watch, but fuzzed > the image out too much. This is what I got with my D80, near the end: http://members.iinet.net.au/~nsouto/photos/DSC0061.jpg Sorry, got home too late to get the full on shade. > On Aug 29, 7:38 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > This is what I got with my D80, near the end:http://members.iinet.net.au/~nsouto/photos/DSC0061.jpg > Sorry, got home too late to get the full on shade. Nice shot, Noons. May I ask what lens, and does it stand much enlargement? On Aug 30, 8:18 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Aug 29, 7:38 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Nice shot, Noons. May I ask what lens, and does it stand much > enlargement? Sorry - no need to reply, I just read the post below - Nikkor 50-300/4..yum.. (O; On Aug 30, 9:09 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > > > This is what I got with my D80, near the end:http://members.iinet.net.au/~nsouto/photos/DSC0061.jpg > > > Sorry, got home too late to get the full on shade. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Sorry - no need to reply, I just read the post below - Nikkor > 50-300/4..yum.. (O; It was an ebay basketcase: had a sloppy focus ring. Almost returned it. But the photo mechanic magicians in Pitt St Sydney did an excellent job on it for around 200 bucks: they replaced the zoom sleeve with a shop made one and fixed the creeping focus. Works like new now. Can't complain, given it cost me only 300 bucks overall and can be used with film as well as DX dslr although only in manual meter. Been eyeing one for ages! :-) I'll still take it back at some future stage to get rid of a little bit of dust in one of the internal elements. But that can wait. Bjorn likes it a lot as well: http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_zoom_03.html#MF50-300ED The image you saw is of the RAW file, no blow-up: just a crop. A touch of FM to give it zing - radius 1. Had it smack bang in the centre to avoid any distortion. Of course: used the timer to fire the shot and the tripod is a BIG and *heavy* Benbo. On Aug 30, 8:18 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Aug 29, 7:38 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Nice shot, Noons. May I ask what lens, and does it stand much > enlargement? Sorry - no need to reply, I just read the post below - Nikkor 50-300/4..yum.. (O; On Aug 28, 7:46 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > So... who's out there doing it properly (1DS III with L glass > maybe? :o), and are you going to post some results here? (And I'm not > really knocking the multiple exposure technique - just jealous of > those with the patience!!) Well, not a 1dsm2. But a d80 with a nikkor 50-300/4 gave me good results. Mind you: used ISO 100 and was quite surprised that I had to jack the speed all the way up to 1/125 at f11 to get detail: anything slower was totally washed out. Then I transposed that to film with Reala and a F2AS and am looking forward to the various brackets I made. The surprise was how much I had to jack up the speed when the disc was half-dark. |
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