Posted on 01/27/2024 1:22:31 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: A popular name for January's full moon in the northern hemisphere is the Full Wolf Moon. As the new year's first full moon, it rises over Las Campanas Observatory in this dramatic Earth-and-moonscape. Peering from the foreground like astronomical eyes are the observatory's twin 6.5 meter diameter Magellan telescopes. The snapshot was captured with telephoto lens across rugged terrain in the Chilean Atacama Desert, taken at a distance of about 9 miles from the observatory and about 240,000 miles from the lunar surface. Of course the first full moon of the lunar new year, known to some as the Full Snow Moon, will rise on February 24.
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That’s a giggle
That’s a quality photograph right there. Long lens with small aperture, long distance, no blur. Difficult.
That’s a quality photograph right there. Long lens with small aperture, long distance, no blur. Difficult.
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Sorry, not difficult at all. Just use a phone app like PhotoPills to predict where the moon will rise. Use a sturdy tripod. No small aperture required. In fact just the opposite. From 9 miles away, everything is at infinity, so a large aperture to gather as much light as possible and prevent subject movement would be used.
All that said, yes it is a quality photo.
Also forgot to add, the most difficult part would be finding a location with clear atmosphere. Shooting through 9 miles of air really amplifies and haze or pollution.
Kilroy is the first thing I thought of.
Nice picture.
Peek-a-boo...
You and I may be at different extremes of photography. Or, I at photography, you at “digital, no skills required”.
Me: mostly 35mm, some 6x6; Kodak Tri-X Pan 400 I could push to 1600 or even 3200 in the lab, at the cost of grain. I’ve processed 100s of rolls of that film, from exposure to print. I know exactly how long exposure, telephoto shots from a tripod are subject to the smallest of tremors.
Taking that shot at 9+ miles with a long exposure takes skill or some fluke of luck that everything just seizes to move for the photo.
What skills do you have in photography to brag about, before you question me?
Since you want to be an ahole about a difference of opinion, let me state apparently I know much more than you about photography.
You again repeat the nonsense about a long exposure. At this distance, a lens of at least 1200 mm was used. The max SS for that lens to stop movement would be around a 1/10 second. Not exactly a long exposure.
I didn’t say it didn’t take skill, I said it was not that difficult.
Processing rolls of film does not mean you have any talent as a photographer. If you want to start a pissing contest, you can PM me some of your work and I will do the same. Or you can just check this out.https://flickr.com/photos/134617293@N02/
Now go be a jerk with someone else.
My pictures have been chosen as finalists for The International Garden Photographer of the Year and used by them for a web article about flower photography. A photo of mine is also in the home page slideshow of naturephotographers.net. I have also had articles published in Outdoor Photographer magazine when it was still in print. Not bragging,but there’s much more where that came from. You wanted to know my skills to DARE question you.
Where are you? You have such a fragile ego, you personally attack and insult someone just cause they have a different opinion than you, then run away and hide.
Cmon mister film processor.
Wow, you really got a bee in your bonnet there. Multiple hysteric posts. (And the “ahole” came from you, so much for insults...)
Take a deep breath and go play somewhere else.
I think you need to reread your original post to me, mister film processor. You started it.
When insulted, I return in kind. Only a fragile person such as yourself gets irate about a differing opinion, which was made without any insults, sarcasm, or flippant remarks. I DARED TO QUESTION the great film processor.
Now let’s see some examples of all that PROCESSING.
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