Rookie havin fun

Nice, dude! Really crisp. Do you mind if I post mine in this thread and others who have them do the same? It's cool either way with me.

It was absolutely a gorgeous sight! I got done with a hockey T&I shoot just about seven and got to see it, but was already frozen enough to stand outside for another half an hour taking shots. I'll regret it tomorrow, but is sure feels good to be warm now!

Ken, as soon as I was done shooting the great gray owl after sunset, I set up the new tripod (thanks for the birthday gift, buddy!) and waited half an hour in the comfort of my warm vehicle for both planets to emerge, and then spent 10 minutes capturing them before hopping back in the 4Runner for the ride home.

That tripod/head is a winner! A monster for sure, but a winner too.

Well, I guess we'll see if it really is tough enough to hold up a car!

Post away everybody! I was using my powershot, handheld, ISO 800, shutter speed 1/100, and TV setting.

It cleared this afternoon, but I had to work until 5:30. By the time I got home and grrabbed my camera, it was dark. I tried anyay.

Half hour earlier would have been awesome.

Ok this is my first post of a photo, hopefully the photo will show I used a Canon XTi with 100-400 with a 1.4 tel, I wish that it didn't have the tel on, but I forgot the lens caps for it so I didn't want to take it off. 13 sec, f/6.3, 800 ISO, 140mm, with tripod. Suggestions and comments welcome, also can someone tell me why the photo got a second moon?

thanks, John

Actually John did you have a lens hood on? That might have caused that moon.

With the long exposure time you exposed the surface of the moon and got a fair amount of movement blur from the moon and planets moving. It takes a fairly fast shutter speed to stop the blur of the planets caused by the earth's rotation.

I used a 1 second exposure and even that showed just a bit of motion blur. I used settings of ISO 200, 1 second and f8 just to give you an idea. Hope that helps a bit.

Dan, I didn't use a lens hood, but the lens did have a UV Haze filter. Does the photo look dark? I did some adjustments on my laptop before uploading the photo, but now looking at it on my pc it looks very dark.

John

John, unless you shot at twilight it is certainly going to be a dark photo. I do think the moons and planets were exposed for a little to long of a time period. You had an ISO of 800 and 13 second exposure. I used ISO 200 and 1 second exposure with OK results.

I am almost positive the combination of no lens hood and the filter on the front caused the second moon. Filters can actually cause more flare especially with night shots like this. If it is an in-expensive brand filter they are a bit more prone to flare as well.

Here's what I got shortly after sunset.

Canon 30D, Canon 70-200 f2.8L at 200mm, iso100, 1/30 at f2.8, Manfrotto 475B tripod/3039 head

Dang, I really like the colors you have Steve. I forgot all about this until a friend called and it was way past twilight. I wanted some blue still left in the sky but.... I did go out again around 7pm because I saw some wispy clouds come by and put some color in the moon but I was too slow to catch it.

Here is mine; 50D, 70-200/2.8 at 190mm. ISO 200, f8, 1 second.

Dan the flare off of the lower planet is cool. I don't know if that is what the camera captured or if you added it, but if you could write a plug in for that you might make some cash. Nice job everyone. I got out too early, forgot my remote and had my old cheap tripod. I haven't downloaded any images yet, but I think I botched it up pretty good.

Mine was with my Powershot, handheld,TV,1/60, ISO 400 20 power zoom. Fun stuff, nice pics all. Nice color steve. Under exposed or how did you get the tint?