Sunday, September 21, 2008

My camera is awesome!!

I stayed up until 4am taking pictures of the moon and stars. I used the telephoto (70-300mm) only.

First I had to get the right exposure, so here's the series (it's peeking out from behind a tree in the first few):
f/5.6; 1.6s

f/5.6; 0.8s

f/5.6; 0.5s

f/5.6; 1/6s

f/5.6; 1/15s

f/5.6; 1/25s

f/5.6; 1/60s

f/5.6; 1/125s

so I chose 1/100s and stuck with that.

This moon one is a composite and it's been Photoshopped. The color is fake, and the individual moons are separate layers of differing opacity. f/5.6; 1/100s. Zoomed all the way in to 300mm.
The star on is a 7-8 minute exposure, f/5. This one is not zoomed at all, at 70mm.

I had tried taking star pictures in Fiji, but I didn't have the good lenses then. So they didn't turn out. With this telephoto, you pretty much can't not get a developed picture of stars. I love it so much!!

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