Night Shooter

Into the night............

Obviously a composite photo, but an interesting one.

Shouldn't he be pointed the camera towards the moon???:-)

Yes Carlos, the silhouette was taken at Death Valley and composite with the moon which makes it more interesting. Thanks for commenting.

Then the silhouette wouldn't have been so nice Craig. Thanks for visiting.

I like this night shot. Excellent.

i wish i had a view like that!

 

composite or not, it's a great image.

Nice idea - can you estimate the focal length required to give the relative sizes of Moon and man like this??!

Curious and interesting composition

Nice rendition. Amazing clarity.

Awesome!

Muaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!

Very good idea, I love it!!!

I concur, great shot.

Photography is also its capacity to amaze us.

if so, please explain how you did it. your camera is incapable of taking this without help.

Come on Jeff:

Give me some slack. I looked into your photosite and am amazed at your rather weird digital manipulations! Although you mention PS manipulations you did not specify details of the composites as well!

To answer your question: The moon photo is my collection taken with an analog Contax 167MT camera and a Tamron SP 500mm mirror lens with X 2 teleconverter Tamron SP lens attachment on a tripod. Picture scanned to hi-res digital .jpg and cropped. Hope this clarifies.

Very well done and very original. Great looking folder too! Keep up the good work! Best, J.W.

I must say this is the best picture that has taken my attention! Altough I'd like to point out that I think the man should only be a silhouette... When shooting against the moon like that (if it was possible) the man should be totally black... Anyway, just my two cents!

I was thoroughly impressed with the moon image, and wanted to know how you got it. It you looked at my folders carefully, I have a moonshot that prompted me to look at the really detailed images made by those who connect to telescopes. I am looking to make some of these myself, and I use this site to help me learn how to take better pictures.

 

By the way: all of my compositions are images made up of photos taken with my only camera, the one identified in my image info.

 

Great image, and well done!

Thanks Jeff. On hindsight, I guess I should have mentioned my other camera - Contax which I hardly used now. Another win for technology!

Rachmainioff's variation on a theme from Paganini.

 

Motivated by Neil D.'s question and Jeff Davidson's comments, I did a little maths on this stimulating image. If this were an uncropped 24x36mm frame, the diameter of the Moon on the negative would be about 24mm. Since the real diameter of the Moon is about 3500 km, the Moon would have been reduced some 150 million times. The real distance from the Moon is 386,000 km in the average; therefore, the focal length of the lens would have been (386,000 km/150,000,000) = 2.6 meters (give or take a few cm). Assuming the real height of the man to be about 6", or 1.8 meters, since his size in the negative would be about 7 mm the distance from the man would have been (1.8 meters/7 mm x 2.6 meters) = roughly 700 meters. Therefore, a "real" full frame picture like this might only have been taken standing 700 meters away from the man and using a lens with 2600 mm focal length. Using the author's 1000 mm lens (500 mm + doubler), it would be necessary to enlarge a portion of the negative 2.6 times smaller on each side, i.e. some 9x14mm in size. Therefore, it wouldn't be impossible to shoot this as a single photo rather than as a composite; for example, if anybody can mount a 500mm lens + doubler on a compact digital (whose sensor array is about that size), this photo might be obtained without even cropping. Of course, getting this sharpness while shooting so close to the horizon would only be possible in the coldest and stillest of nights, and away from smog and heat sources.

good lord Michele... you must have a lot of spare time on your hands! :-p Great shot Alec. WOW! Very cool looking. I would agree with the total silloutte comment. I think the guy should be all black. That's nit-picking though. Very nice.

My God! I knew this image will stir up controversy but never this much.

First I want to mention to Julius, I am interested to see but cannot open your image (Rachmainioff's variation on a theme from Paganini.)

Michele, thanks for your technical review... a little too complicated?

And finally Joe Orsak... it will be easy for me to make the silhouette all black but I find the faint blue photo jacket real cool. You can see from my friend, Peter's 30 kilo Lowepro backpack that he's a serious photographer. Lugging it all evening around the sand dunes at Death Valley is no joke! (that's a sand dune he's standing on). In fact he'll obliterate me if he knew I had done a digital composite with him as center of attraction. Peter is a true blue velvia slide fan....his pictures are all natural without the slightest manipulation - not even to take away a disturbing twig from an area where he's taking a shot! Well, I hope I did him justice on this one to highlight his commitment.