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      08-20-2013, 10:19 AM   #2729
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Nice one Dave! On my recent trip to Oregon you could really see the smoke in the air from all the fires. We are in high danger here due to a rare lightning storm rolling across the state. I was going to try to shoot the moon last night but it was just too hazy.
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      08-20-2013, 11:36 AM   #2730
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Yeah Ed, it helped that my moon was about 30-degrees up when I shot, minmizing the haze. Near the horizon I couldn't have gotten a decent shot.

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      08-20-2013, 12:29 PM   #2731
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I'm still search the are for a proper venue for auto photography, until then this unimaginative shot will have to do.

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      08-20-2013, 01:51 PM   #2732
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^^^Nice. My new (to me) 2012 C300 4Matic arrives tomorrow. I'll be BMW-less for the first time in 10 years.

Can't wait to get some pics up.
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      08-20-2013, 02:43 PM   #2733
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^^^Nice. My new (to me) 2012 C300 4Matic arrives tomorrow. I'll be BMW-less for the first time in 10 years.

Can't wait to get some pics up.
I look forward to seeing the pics.
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      08-20-2013, 03:13 PM   #2734
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      08-20-2013, 04:32 PM   #2735
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^^Nice!
Love the concept and composition
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      08-20-2013, 06:06 PM   #2736
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Lenny and Carls faces are so different, usually they have the same face type.
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      08-20-2013, 06:24 PM   #2737
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^^Nice!
Love the concept and composition
Agreed. Cool shot, Matt.

You could have some Photoshop fun with that blank screen, too.
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      08-20-2013, 08:17 PM   #2738
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      08-20-2013, 08:35 PM   #2739
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Just saw this nest on the side of a farm road near a river in Amity Oregon. I was trying to be careful, but still spooked the Osprey, so I moved away slowly and hope I didn't disturb dinner too much.


Osprey with his dinner by lennycarl08, on Flickr
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      08-20-2013, 09:28 PM   #2740
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Tried a full moon shot with the 400 5.6 and 1.4x TC. Very humid out there tonight, though. Lost some definition, I think.

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Tried a full moon shot with the 400 5.6 and 1.4x TC. Very humid out there tonight, though. Lost some definition, I think.
As Mark points out, the most likely thing to foil your moon shots is atmosphere. The other thing is that many noob moon shooters don't take into account how bright the moon is and over expose it.

Induro asked me to write a piece about shooting the moon and they put it their blog at:

http://blog.indurogear.com/how-to-ph...ing-your-mind/

Perhaps I overplayed the need for a tripod, given my sponsor. I rarely use the tripod anymore if its a grab-shot. If I plan to shoot a series, then I'll set up the tripod to save my arms. Here's a grab-shot from last week, off my balcony, 1,000mm at 1/80-sec. hand held. Proving that the IS on the new Series II 500mm is simply amazing:


Gibbous Waxing Moon by dcstep, on Flickr

The dark areas are due to clouds on earth, causing me to slightly over expose the lower right quadrant. Pulled Shadows up, Highlights down, added a ton of Contrast and Micro-Contrast and that's it.
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Great osprey shot Ed. I've been lazy this year and didn't travel up to Summit County to shoot osprey this year. You shame me.
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^^Nice!
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Thanks! That drivein is right near the speedway in Bristol, in case anyone is wondering.
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Agreed. Cool shot, Matt.

You could have some Photoshop fun with that blank screen, too.
Ive had enough photoshop mischief at work alone! Working for a racing series affords many interesting opportunities
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how do you combine pictures to get the long exposure effect? my camera only does 30 second exposures
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Mishatu camp, Botswana
Beautiful!

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      08-21-2013, 11:18 AM   #2748
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how do you combine pictures to get the long exposure effect? my camera only does 30 second exposures
30 seconds is plenty long for any long exposure; however as an aside, your DSLR (and even some P&S) should have a Bulb mode that allows longer exposure times.

As for combining photos, some cameras have a built in feature that does this automatically (the one I posted above in post #2738 being an example), whereas you can similarly take multiple shots on a tripod and combine them in photoshop (this is what I did in this image in post #2720). It amounts to the same thing really, just the latter takes more work

Basically the reason I did it was to add a sense of the road being more busy than it really is by taking several cars' worth of light trails from each shot and combining into one shot with lots of light trails.

Hope this answers the question...

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Tiny Self-Portrait in X6M by ddk632, on Flickr
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      08-21-2013, 12:21 PM   #2749
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Nicely done on both captures.
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Took this today, was doing a photoshoot today but then this one cloud got in the way of the sun!

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