Super Moon 8/10/2014

[grandpawrichard]

Super Moon 8/10/2014. Hand held, 400mm telephoto with a 2X extender (800 mm.) ISO 320, f/13, 1/250th. of a second. Canon 7D. Not too bad for a bald, old, senile, fat guy.
8/10/2014



Dick

[bobcat]

Really cool photo! Thanks for posting.

[Becky]

Been staring at the moon on and off all night wishing I had a camera good enough to capture it. Great shot!

[X-Force]

Great Shot.

[grandpawrichard]

Thanks guys! I am so blessed that the stroke I suffered a year and a half ago didn't take the steadiness out of my hands.

My Son-in-law came over tonight, I showed him the photo and he wanted to try taking a few shoots to see if he could do as good. I took him out and let him try. His shots we all blurry and out of focus. I then showed him up by taking the camera and taking 3 good shots.

Then I mounted my 1.4 extender to the mix and let him try. He gave up because he couldn't hold it steady and it was making him dizzy. I took 4 shots hand held that turned out every bit as good as the ones without the 1.4X extender. He threw up his hands and admitted defeat! The old guy whooped him again!

Dick

[Romulus1297]

Nice shot Thanks. To smoky here. Enough time to shoot and post a couple more Thanks

[grandpawrichard]

Blue Moon, you've got me singing the blues, without a love of my own..........

Messing around with a photo of tonight's Super Moon (8/10/14).
This is a Hand held shot, 400 mm lens, a 1.4X extender, and a 2X extender stacked together. The exposure was ISO 640, f/18, 1/400 th. of a second, with my Canon 7D camera.

400(mm lens) X 1.4 (extender) X 2 (2nd. extender) x 1.6 (camera crop factor) + 1,792 mm lens.

I just Had to mess with the photo by shooting with a white balance for Florescent lights an then adding a lot of blue into the photo in Lightroom. That way I could do the Blue Moon song.

Not too bad of a photo for that much magnification. Especially for a man that had a stroke a year and a half ago.


Dick

[rasbo]

Awesome shot Dick you are doing some really cool pics

[C-Money]

Was sure bright. Very glad for the super moon on 8/10 during my early morning run on the Columbia. I was able to see a large log floating in my path in time to take evasive maneuvers!! That thing would have hurt.

 Great pic of the moon!

[KFhunter]

I was wishing I had a cool camera,  the moon was bright orange from the smoke

[boneaddict]

Looking good GR.   Kids wanted me to nail it last night because it looked like a giant pumpkin.   I told them to just enjoy it.

[Bean Counter]

I was wishing I had a cool camera,  the moon was bright orange from the smoke

KF, you can get into a very capable used DLSR system for $200-300. Getting invested into digital photography doesn't have to be like hunting.