Friday, August 7, 2009

Shootin' the MOON - photography

Warm Summer nights plus a full moon equal...

Take some shots!

Put down the Absynth - Not that kind of shot. (for the moment, anyway)

These kind of shots...


Photographs

The first is a crop of an image created using my trusty "poor man's Leica" (Lumix DMC-FZ30) with the Leica telephoto zoom lens cranked to full tilt boogie (12x / 420mm equivalent).

Camera was on a tri-pod with manual exposure settings of ISO 100, F11 aperture, at 1/100 sec.

How many "Man in the Moon" faces do you see?


The next picture is of the full moon rising over Lake Winnebago.

The same set-up was used to capture the image except the exposure settings. A program shift Auto exposure mode was used resulting in the following settings: ISO 100, F3.7, and 1.0 sec.

These settings yielded a "pretty HOT" moon (bright white, washed out)

I spent a bit of time tweaking it in photoshop to get this final image.


Whada ya think?

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