A slice of Wensleydale....

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9 replies

Posted by Mike Smith on April 8, 2008 at 4:45 PM

..Grommit?

Olympus e-3, 300 f2.8 plus 1.4 tc, iso100 manual mode 1/200s at F5.6, manual focus and live view to fine tune, IS off, tripod Olympus anti shake at 5 seconds (= mirror lock) .Orf converted to .Dng and processed in CS2

Posted by Alan Bryant on April 8, 2008 at 5:27 PM

Thats a great shot.

I love any shot of the moon, and i really like this one

Posted by John Arthur on April 9, 2008 at 3:09 AM

Cracking shot

Posted by Mike Smith on April 9, 2008 at 4:41 AM

Thanks guys, I was quite surprised just how much underexposure needed dialling in to prevent the whites blowing, hence the granularity showing.

What I have noticed with this shot is just how much improved the E-3 is over the E-1 for this type of shot. My earlier moon shot attempts with the E-1 body usually resulted in horrible noise that needed a fair bit of work in curves to return to pure black background again. This shot is pretty much straight out of the can cropped, resized and sharpened and a levels lift

Posted by Adrian North on April 9, 2008 at 4:59 AM

Mike,

As an ex-astronomer I have to say that image is sweet! Reminds me of why I started stargazing in the first place

Thanks for sharing

Adrian

Posted by Paul Thomas on April 9, 2008 at 5:56 AM

Looks like Wallace has taken a good bite out of it

Nice shot.

Paul

Posted by Paul Inglis on April 9, 2008 at 6:17 AM

Hi Mike,

Very, very nice image!

Posted by Alan Woolnough on April 9, 2008 at 8:20 AM

Nicely done Mike,

An attractive 'phase', with the base being illuminated {i assume its a time-of-the-year thing}.

Alan

Posted by jack chapman on April 9, 2008 at 9:09 AM

very nice the colouring is great

Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on April 10, 2008 at 3:09 AM

Very nice shot. I like the colour very much.