Total Lunar Eclipse 2/20/08

I'll have to restore my avatar. That one was long ago, perhaps before David was born. :p
 
ddrueding said:
Aug of 1980?
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Was a very nice one on the westcoast in the late '70's I think (almost overhead in the night sky ~9PM), sometime in my teen years, was out in the Mojave desert dirt biking/camping, took either negatives or slides with the trusty Oly OM1 or OM2, not as good as LM's...smaller images, using that Tokina 28-200mm zoom. Had an adapter to mount the Oly to my fathers ~5in Meade tele, but that was too bulky to take with me as a guest in the motorhome. Seen others in LA proper, none really exciting to me now days, but if you have a telescope, then it's fun to watch/view.
 
Looks like I need to get a digiscope, Zeiss maybe, and that 21MP 1Ds III, lol

Actually not too bad via naked eye, slightly hazy.

Oly C50z f4.8, 8 sec. max jpeg quality...really sux, don't think Tiff file would be any better...guess I could go try.
 
Stereodude said:
I think I need a longer lens. :(
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What lens did you use (focal length?). I would have thought a 10D would have higher image quality, but then I don't know how much you cropped the image. IIRC, my film images taken with the OM1/2 back in the 1970's looked about the same, though I had the vantage point of being in a totally dark environment out in the desert.
 
udaman said:
What lens did you use (focal length?). I would have thought a 10D would have higher image quality, but then I don't know how much you cropped the image. IIRC, my film images taken with the OM1/2 back in the 1970's looked about the same, though I had the vantage point of being in a totally dark environment out in the desert.
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I used my Sigma 100-300F4 at 300mm. I did not crop the images at all just resized them and processed a little. There was a lot of light pollution in the sky in the direction of the moon. Also, the movement of the moon caused the later pictures to be blurry. I went out on a whim to take some pictures and didn't prepare accordingly.
 
I thought about renting a lens for the occasion, but the timing wasn't right. I had a clear sky, but I didn't have the time to take pictures unfortunately.
 
You should be very happy with the 10-22mm EF-S from everything I've read here and other palces.
 
Yup, it seems like an awesome lens. I just convinced my buddy (who I got hooked on photography) to buy one. I'll borrow it in a couple weeks to see what it does. I know I want it to be part of the kit I bring to Moscow.
 
Definitely go wide when on vacation. If you don't have an ultra/superwide zoom for traveling, you need to get one. I have taken over 85% of my shots on vacation with my superwide zooms. In fact, on my recent trip to Asia, I brought my Olympus kit and used the 11-22/2.8-3.5 (equivalent to a 15-30 for APS-C) for literally 97% of my pictures. Out of the 513 pics that I took with my dSLR, all but 16 came from that lens.

Just remember not to be tempted to just sit back, set it to 10 mm, and try to take in everything in one shot. The magic of superwide angle lenses are not so much from the massive field of view (which is an important feature for sure), but rather, from the emphasis on perspective that creates visual tension, strong depth cues, and draws you into the scene, as if you had figured out how to create a quasi-3D image from a 2D piece of paper. That, my friend, is the magical property of wideangle photography.

People will think you've become a better photographer overnight and wonder what your secret is. If you want to be nice, go ahead and tell them: "the secret, my friend, is not very big at all... in fact, it's between 10-20 mm in length"... and just walk away while they scratch their heads with a puzzled look on their faces ;)
 
e_dawg said:
Definitely go wide when on vacation.on my recent trip to Asia, I brought my Olympus kit and used the 11-22/2.8-3.5 (equivalent to a 15-30 for APS-C) for literally 97% of my pictures. Out of the 513 pics that I took with my dSLR, all but 16 came from that lens.

... from the massive field of view (which is an important feature for sure), but rather, from the emphasis on perspective that creates visual tension, strong depth cues, and draws you into the scene, as if you had figured out how to create a quasi-3D image from a 2D piece of paper. That, my friend, is the magical property of wideangle photography.
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Looks like you're now ready for a 24mm tilt/shift on a FF body :). So where are these pictures in the 'Something Random Pictures' thread? I must have missed the notes, where did you go in Asia, vacation or business, was it enjoyable...read they had some tough times with heavy snow in northern China recently?
 
I was in Beijing and HK during xmas and New Year. Just for a vacation with my friend, who was visiting his dad. Since he grew up in HK, he was able to show me around. Not to mention, he speaks Cantonese and Mandarin, which helped immensely ;)

Yeah, heard about the snow too. It's funny, because I was telling people about the weather in Beijing after I returned in January, that it's like NYC but rarely gets snow during the winter. And a few weeks later, people are saying "I though you said it rarely snows there!" Sigh...

As for the pics, I haven't had a chance to edit most of them yet... been very busy getting ready to launch a massive project at work. Will post some pics when I get a chance to work on them.
 
Beijing in the summer reminded me a lot of NYC in the summer. The snow probably did the same thing; hide all the dirt and knock down some of the pollution. Couldn't hurt.
 
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