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[wastickslinger]

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[huntergreg]

I dont have any idea how the dang camera stuff works but cool pics!!

[509er]

How, stand closer to the fence and dont let the critter scare you.   

[Dbow]

Older lenses had marks on the F stops around the lens. If you followed the lines at the chosen f stop, you could check it against the focal distance. Wide open you would have a narrow depth of field, stopped down you have a wide depth of field. Instead of focusing  for either subject you could choose an F stop that would allow both to be in focus, because of the depth of field. This was called hyper focal distance. If you lens is not marked that way I am not sure the best way to figure out how to do the same thing.

[tlbradford]

I'm not sure how to do this on a P&S, but I can tell you that you have an even more difficult time with the subjects in your photo.  Since the buffalo is dark your camera is going to choose a slower shutter speed to get the proper exposure on your buffalo.  The maximum shutter speed to get the moon in focus, since it is a moving target is recommended at 1/80.  You probably are closer to 1/4.

When you focus on the moon you are probably getting something around 1/250 which is pretty fast to get any depth of field in the light you had.  In the future, you could try to focus on a lighter subject, like the grass that is behind the buffalo and just below the skyline, and see how it turns out.

I know a lot of those photos you see with a beautiful moon and foreground are two photos.

[jackelope]

I think it's a yak.

[jackelope]

and it looks like he's about to run your ass over.
in or out of focus.

[Bob33]

he's about to run your ass over.

A true moon shot!

Seriously, I don't think you can get both sharply in focus in this lighting.

[Huntbear]

stickslinger, you take those down by Dallesport?  At the game farm there?

[Bob33]

[smg id=10205]

[MuleySniper]

few more from the farm. I always stop on my way through to portland.

Yeah, we ALL know how much you love them game farms.... Especially after you've had a couple whiskey's

[ThunderChicken66]

When you look at a scene with the natural eye, that is always what you want in the pic.  Unfortunately, unless you spend thousands of hours (which I have not) experimenting with light and various exposure levels you won't get that perfect shot.  I have taken thousands of pics all over the world and have just a few that I feel are perfect.  Read alot, take your time and have fun.  I like the pics in your thread.  In my opinion, they're good.  Good hunting, TC66

[ThunderChicken66]

BTW, after looking a second time, I would have either moved back or zoomed out to get the full shot of the bison in focus, the light was better for full natural illumination and the primary would have been in focus.

[ser300wsm]

The pics look pretty good to me .....