Forum: Photography

Subject: April Nightshots Entry #1

Davidy opened this issue on Apr 21, 2005 · 11 posts

Davidy posted Thu, 21 April 2005 at 5:05 PM

Thanks for looking, this is my first photography post (a general photography newbie). I have followed the gallery for ages and finally posted something. I hope to start posting some things properly to the gallery soon. Been trying to capture the moon since I bought a D70 a month ago, this is only the second night there has been no cloud cover, and the month was running out! Still, hope you all like. Nikon D70 70-300mm lense @300mm ISO 200 F 9.0 1/100th sec no postwork, just cropped

Davidy posted Thu, 21 April 2005 at 5:06 PM

the thumb

tibet2004uk posted Thu, 21 April 2005 at 5:20 PM

Welcome to the forum dear! And what a cool capture!! I think u did amazingly well here!!! Great entry!!

L8RDAZE posted Thu, 21 April 2005 at 5:51 PM

Hey great Moon SHOT!! Cool camera and lens TOO...welcome to the forum! C'mon in and have some FUN!

tvernuccio posted Thu, 21 April 2005 at 7:58 PM

hiya & welcome aboard!!! Verrrry cool capture!!!! Totally incredible!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm totally impressed! :)

DJB posted Thu, 21 April 2005 at 9:44 PM

Guess I will try this with same camera/lens. Lat one I did was with my Nikon8700 and it was not bad,but with a real lens it should turn out better. Welcome to the forum.

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

cynlee posted Fri, 22 April 2005 at 12:39 AM

ooooooooh... the moooooooooon!!! o.O!!!!! howling fantastic image!! & welcome, welcome :] cindy

TomDart posted Fri, 22 April 2005 at 9:47 PM

You have a Nikon 70-300? That impresses me enough already. The image is a good example of a good lens. Thanks. I am surprised the exposure was not longer. This did work fine. TomDart.

wackiej posted Sat, 23 April 2005 at 2:20 AM

Way to go! I'm going to start dreaming about 300mm...300mm...300mm... I really want to be able to shoot the moon like this! Jackie

tibet2004uk posted Sat, 23 April 2005 at 11:24 AM

LOL@Jackie!! I hear ya! Same here! ;)

Davidy posted Sat, 23 April 2005 at 11:50 AM

well, thank you all for your very kind comments. I'm glad I posted it now. I'll be sure to post more pics and start commenting on others work as well. I still use my old Fuji 40i but I bought a D70 80-70mm kit, 100 cashback was enough to buy me the 70-300G lens for 99. The moon was very bright, left on auto settings it was very over exposed. Shutter speed was higher because I took the shot handheld. I have a tripod and a remote but no matter what I did the shutter release was enough to blur the shot each time, my tripod is way to flimsy for such a heavy camera. Thanks David