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Enjoy!
I just love this thread!
Nibbles, that leaf is amazing....I really like it!
Jitterbug............you are obviously either from my neck of the woods or taking photos in it! I recognise Princes St! Is one of them a sparkler?
Skitty, that pic is beautiful!
Ozzzy, they are fab. I am inspired to go and muck around with my photos now!
Happyone
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Had a go at photographing the moon tonight.
Take care,
Mike
How did you do that Mike? Any time I try to photograph the moon, it looks like this
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Yours is amazing!
happyone
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Hi Happy,
Thanks for your kind comments. I used a tripod and carefully exposed for the moon to take my photo. What camera do you use?
Take care,
Mike :)
mike love the shot of the moon , what lense did you use for that ?
And where is the little man who lives up there ?
Thanks Mirry. :) I used Sigma's 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG APO Macro lens and then cropped the photo in Photoshop. A photo of the lens is shown here.
He had just popped to the Tesco store on the dark side of the moon. :D
Mike
:shrug: A kodak digital thingy! I have settings on it to use it manually but I have forgotten more than I ever learnt about manually using a camera:blush:Quote:
What camera do you use?
I have some nice 'scenes' or nature ones (if I can ever downsize them enough to post!)
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I am not sure how they will turn out as I have downsized them a BIG amount!
Happyone
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Nice shots happy, the wasp is definitely my favourite.
There are basically two things you can adjust manually if your camera allows it. The first is shutter speed which is how long the shutter stays open for and therefore how long the camera's sensor stays exposed to light. If you are shooting outdoors at night then you would need a shutter speed of several seconds because of the low light levels.
The second manual control is the aperture which controls how much light is let through the lens. A camera lens has a series of plates inside which is like the iris in your eye. A small aperture makes the plates contract so that there is only a small hole to let light through. A large aperture creates a large hole that lets more light through because the plates expand. Rather confusingly, a small number (such as f2.8) represents a large aperture. Another use of aperture is controlling the depth of field (DoF) which simple means how much of the background and foreground are in focus. A large aperture and zooming in will create a blurred background like in your wasp photo.
The moon was really bright when I photographed it so to avoid overexposure I used a fast shutter speed (1/1250s). That reduced the amount of time the camera's sensor was exposed to light and therefore kept the details of the moon.
Hope this helps and let me know if you try photographing the moon.
Take care,
Mike :)
Can I post my first recording with a live band from my karoake site??
http://www.singsnap.com/snap/e/bd10f12f0