Post by Romy Ocon on Oct 9, 2008 2:55:26 GMT
The moon was about 51 - 53% last night, and at a focal length of around 2263 mm, it almost fully filled the frame of the 40D.
Live View makes it easier, not only to focus manually and tame mirror slap, but more importantly to keeping the moon within the center of the frame.
The clearances of the moon from the edges of the frame are narrow, and at 2263 mm, the subject moves quite fast (though still slow enough to be reasonably frozen by 1/25 sec shutter speed).
The canvas (black BG) was as shot.... untouched/uncropped except resizing the photo to 50%, i.e. there was no need to reposition the subject in the frame.
Processed 100% crop:
Live View makes it easier, not only to focus manually and tame mirror slap, but more importantly to keeping the moon within the center of the frame.
The clearances of the moon from the edges of the frame are narrow, and at 2263 mm, the subject moves quite fast (though still slow enough to be reasonably frozen by 1/25 sec shutter speed).
The canvas (black BG) was as shot.... untouched/uncropped except resizing the photo to 50%, i.e. there was no need to reposition the subject in the frame.
Processed 100% crop:
, AFS 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G , TC 1.4EII, TC 1.7EII, SB-800, Manfrotto 190CXPro3/393(3421), RRS BH-55, Kirk NC300 lens collar
