Moon Shot!!

[rbtree]

Shot this tonight with my Canon EOS 7D, and 300 mm f/2.8 L IS, with 2x teleconverter attached, which gives effectively 960 mm, or 19 power. I shot it handheld, from my front yard, at 10 pm. The leaves are on my red Japanese maple. Two of them appear to look like birds in flight, to me!!

The embedded image is after considerable exposure adjustment, which made the moon larger with less vignetting around the edges. I like it. I added a border on the other, which made the file size a lot larger....

 

[rbtree]

This dead madrona twig was shot Friday night, so the moon wasn't full. I had the camera on a tripod, but this time I had two stacked teleconverters attached, which gives 1350 mm, effective, or 26 power!!

I fiddled with the exposure, which gave the ethereal color palate.....

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hummingbirds!

 

[stig]

Hummingbirds, absolutely.
You must have incredibly steady hands.
Make a good sniper.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Orrrrr, a pediatric heart surgeon.

 

[wiley_p]

Hummingbirds, absolutely.
You must have incredibly steady hands.
Make a good sniper.

Not. Staying in one position for hours/days would kill Roger. He can't stay still for 2 minutes.

 

[stig]

Easily fixed.
Feed him some downers!

 

[Blinky]

Steady hand not required. It's basically a high contrast daylight shot since the moon reflects light from the, ummm... sun.

And I think it's a ripping nice shot, expressive.