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Moon in the Afternoon II (Better if viewed with "Claire de lune" playing in the background)

Landrum Kelly

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Canon EOS-Nikon converter used. The Nikon 600 is an old manual focus lens, but the glass (150mm across on the objective) is still in very excellent shape--but it is heavy! A Wimberley gimbal mount was used.

No teleconverter used. I shot forty-eight shots, most at f/8 but some at f/11, at variable shutter speeds, usually in the 1/125 sec range, or somewhat slower. I would set the aperture and then start with about 1/250 sec and come down from there to about 1/60 sec. It was all a good bit of trial and error, in part due to the need to darken the bright blue afternoon sky.

Actual aperture of this shot is unknown. The Nikon 600mm has its limiting maximum aperture at f/4. I took a series of shots stopped down at various settings. I can check the RAW files (assuming I still have them), but the TIFFs that these shots were converted to do not retain the EXIF data.

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Landrum Kelly
This is cropped and blown up a bit from an earlier posting--or from asister shot made the same afternoon. Comments welcome.

--Lannie

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Landrum Kelly

Thanks, Arup.

 

I see now that the larger version really shows pixelation, especially on the edges. Even the medium size on most monitors has gone just beyond optimal resolution.

 

Next time I shall have to use the 1.4X TC--and perhaps stick the same lens on a cropped sensor camera as well to get larger files which I can then downsample for optimal resolution without digital artifacts and pixelation, if I am going to try for this level of magnification. (Perhaps I should just haul out the old Orion 80mm APO refractor and admit that camera lenses really cannot do what I want to do.)

 

Thanks for visiting. Love your photos of India.

 

--Lannie

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fixman2k
I have shot the moon on film, but have not yet posted any shots on my page...I had to look up Claire de Lune to understand the reference, but I liked it and ended up downloading the piano version. I also like some of the other shots in your portfolio. I'll take another look...and perhaps ask for a signed copy of one I like...if you do that sort of thing? Patrick in WI.
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Landrum Kelly

Thank you, Ivana and Tom--and you, too, Patrick

 

I can do that, Patrick--as soon as I get my photo printer set up in this room where I have moved my computer to.

 

Thanks for visiting. I hope you enjoy Debussy.

 

--Lannie

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