I finally managed to turn half of my website to flash. One is the Diptych section and the other is Panorama. Check them out. The images are bigger and there are a couple of new photos too. For those who prefer non-flash presentation, or for viewers with no flash plug-in and don't care to install one (it's really easy and I created a link for you for free download at www.macromedia.com), I still retained the old presentation. Just go to Contact page and it will lead you to the old site. Do let me know if you're having a problem accessing it. I've given up on persuading people to leave me a note here and just to sign with their initials, so just email it to me.
Three people have asked if I took the Moon photo in my Diptych. Indeed I did. From my bedroom window.
Shooting the Moon, against a common notion, is very easy. The problem is the setting of the camera. Logic seems to dictate that because you are shooting at night, the setting should also be nightime. Not the case with the Moon. The Moon is directly lighted by the sun. That's why it glows. So shooting the Moon is like shooting an object in direct sunlight. You use the good old Sunny 16 rule.
Pardon me if I go technical just a bit here. I'll make it as painless as possible. Two paragraphs at most. Promise.
Before the days of automated metering, people with meterless camera used the Sunny 16. Simply said, on a sunny day, turn your aperture(f) to 16 and the speed of your camera to the film's ISO. So if you're using ISO400 film, the setting is f16 + 400 (speed of camera).
The metering will vary when you're on a shade (open up the lens or slow the speed of the camera a bit), but that's a topic for another day. But let me add that this metering is perfect for meterless rangefinder cameras where you can align the split images/compose and shoot without fumbling on the lens aperture and camera speed.
Back to the topic at hand, shooting the Moon is like shooting during the day. But using a long lens (300mm to 400mm lens will do) with a strong and steady tripod. Of course, you must apply bracketing. That means, you shoot on f11 and f22 (apart from f16) to get the desired exposure.
And do not be alarmed if the picture comes up with a grey landscape and not yellow. The Moon is not yellow. It's the atmosphere that makes it look yellow. As well as romantic songs and poems.
Try it sometimes. It's fun. Anyway, the Moon is slipping away from our gravity by 4 centimetres a year. A couple of billion years and it's gone. Shoot it while you can. Click.
Three people have asked if I took the Moon photo in my Diptych. Indeed I did. From my bedroom window.
Shooting the Moon, against a common notion, is very easy. The problem is the setting of the camera. Logic seems to dictate that because you are shooting at night, the setting should also be nightime. Not the case with the Moon. The Moon is directly lighted by the sun. That's why it glows. So shooting the Moon is like shooting an object in direct sunlight. You use the good old Sunny 16 rule.
Pardon me if I go technical just a bit here. I'll make it as painless as possible. Two paragraphs at most. Promise.
Before the days of automated metering, people with meterless camera used the Sunny 16. Simply said, on a sunny day, turn your aperture(f) to 16 and the speed of your camera to the film's ISO. So if you're using ISO400 film, the setting is f16 + 400 (speed of camera).
The metering will vary when you're on a shade (open up the lens or slow the speed of the camera a bit), but that's a topic for another day. But let me add that this metering is perfect for meterless rangefinder cameras where you can align the split images/compose and shoot without fumbling on the lens aperture and camera speed.
Back to the topic at hand, shooting the Moon is like shooting during the day. But using a long lens (300mm to 400mm lens will do) with a strong and steady tripod. Of course, you must apply bracketing. That means, you shoot on f11 and f22 (apart from f16) to get the desired exposure.
And do not be alarmed if the picture comes up with a grey landscape and not yellow. The Moon is not yellow. It's the atmosphere that makes it look yellow. As well as romantic songs and poems.
Try it sometimes. It's fun. Anyway, the Moon is slipping away from our gravity by 4 centimetres a year. A couple of billion years and it's gone. Shoot it while you can. Click.
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