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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2014 - 10:45pm PT
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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2-1-2014
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ryankelly
Trad climber
el portal
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awesome...was just enjoying this one out there...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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awesome...was just enjoying this one out there...
Us too. Just got back in from standing on the upper deck staring at the fingernail moon on the low western horizon.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2014 - 02:53pm PT
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Tight, huh?
Pretty.
Sad.
Where are the moon goons hiding?
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Feb 13, 2014 - 03:04pm PT
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Can I turn in a painting?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 14, 2014 - 03:38pm PT
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I thought, to myself, fauxto, soon as I saw it, Paul, and hellyeah!
STunning painting!
I took these last night around 7:30.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Feb 15, 2014 - 12:20am PT
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2014 - 12:16pm PT
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really nice shot Walter!
what was the lens? and the other particulars?
weather around these parts has been very limiting so I haven't been shooting the moon lately... I have an idea though!
some suggestions to others: I picked up The Nikon Field Guide by Thom Hogan somewhere along the line... it has some guidelines for shooting that can easily be translated from film to digital...
to shoot the moon start with f11 and 1/125s at ISO 100 the moon is moving across the sky and while its angular velocity isn't quite perceptible to the naked eye, you need a fast exposure to keep it from being blurred. The rule of thumb for the exposure time depends on the lens focal length, keep it fast than 1/lens length(in mm).
You have to know about "full stops" to change things around... usually you fix the speed and work the ISO and the aperture, increasing the ISO and decreasing the aperture... so going up to ISO 200 lets you go to the smaller aperture f16 and put the same light on the sensor.
This is important because the modern digital cameras have limited ranges in aperture and shutter speed.
So if you are shooting at 100 mm zoom, you want to keep your exposure faster than 1/100 s
To do this with a point and shoot is challenging. You can put the camera in "manual mode" and set the ISO, aperture and shutter speed.
Often I can put the camera on the moon and set the exposure by depressing the "shoot" button half way, then composing the shot with those settings. For late night, a tripod is important, though usually you're shooting shutter speeds that aren't so dependent on vibration.
To get Walter's shot you need to pull out all the tricks.
In Walter's shot he had a long lens (I'm guessing) and had to shot with a very fast shutter to prevent the moon's motion from blurring the surface details.
After trial and error you'll have your own set of "rules of thumb" and have a good idea of how to bend those rules.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 15, 2014 - 12:27pm PT
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Two practical geniuses and one really good (TJI) climbing photographer telling us how to do the job--Walleye's already GREAT, not "really good."
Like, like, like.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Go forth and multiply.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2014 - 01:07pm PT
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I also miss shooting film... but I'm in the process of setting up to process it... myself... so maybe I can relive the agony and the ecstasy! (mitigated by hauling the dSLR along too...)
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Feb 15, 2014 - 02:05pm PT
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TY
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Feb 15, 2014 - 02:31pm PT
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The moon on 2/6/14 shot at 1/20th second to keep the iso number low. It's a little blurry. It's much easier to shoot a full moon to keep shutter speed high. This was getting low in the sky also. Shot with Canon SX50SH
Other shots from last year with same camera;
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F10
Trad climber
Bishop
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Feb 15, 2014 - 02:50pm PT
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Three planets above a crescent moon
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 16, 2014 - 04:38am PT
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So I took advantage of expertise, went out to Moussolini Balcony, and...
Lo! no moon!
Cloud cover at midnight.
Snickers Bar as compensation.
And this fine shot of wisdom and all aglow.
No owls in the vicinity noticed me.
They were absent as the moon.
The little knurled nut that tightens the rotating handle on the elevation swivel is lost. It backed out, and this necessitates some interesting work with packing tape to hold the weight of the camera and long lens (fully extended 75-300 mm Canon and Canon EOS Rebel T3 with custome Rapala fins) from tipping off the lip.
The tripod is a gift from Ed and it's fine for all I need. I need to send off for that nut to be replaced.
This was very tricky and one had to have been there.
I was there, for once, and I kept the whole thing together, using a piece of webbing to tether the rig, which had one leg on the sill of a window into Vern's penthouse, one on the outside edge of the balcony rail, and one set on the very lip of the inside. Awkward, to say the least.
But worth it, except for the levelness and next time I will not have this Mickey Mouse set-up. Next time it will be a Goofy set-up, you can bet on that.
Again, Walter and Ed, thanks for the beta of experience.
And yes, I forgot to turn off the Manual Setting and that balcony shot is blurred as a result. The Snickers Bar helped, too. I found it all smashed but wrapper intact in the hallway going back to my "studio."
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2014 - 06:24pm PT
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one trick to keep from pushing the button and thus shaking the camera: use the delayed exposure mode... the one you'd use if you were taking a group shot and you wanted to be in it too...
on a dSLR don't forget to run it in "mirror up" mode, with an electronic trigger timer (or an intervalometer, which is what I use mostly, toggling between "mirror up" and "expose")
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Feb 16, 2014 - 07:27pm PT
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TY
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Feb 16, 2014 - 10:35pm PT
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@this just in
How recent are those shots at Shuteye?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 22, 2014 - 05:27am PT
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The Jiving Board, Tioga Hotel, Merced. Half Dome is done to death, guys. But it never gets too old, either. Nice shots, Beautiful Walter.
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