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Blue Moon
Blue Moon
asimchoudhri


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Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: Mar 28, 2007
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Mar 28, 2007

Viewed: 12268
Comments: 7
Favorites: 2 (view)

 Celestron NexStar 6" Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope, Celestron T-adapter, T-Mount for Canon EOS. Telescope on a tripod. Shutter-release for camera.

Manual focus (really hard to do... will try tethered shooting next time to improve focusing), evaluative metering with -2.0 EV, 1/50, 1500mm f/10.0, ISO 100

Raw conversion in Aperture v1.5.2, export as .jpg to ps7, sharpen (USM 200%, 3.0, 0) -> crop -> resize -> sharpen (200%, 0.5, 0) -> channel mixer (0, 0, 100%, 0) (desaturate red and green) -> recrop -> text -> save for web

photographic shout-out to blue moon! :-)

another image 2 days later:


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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 05/14/2007 09:29:42 PM
WOW, what an incredible Moon shot!! Outstanding! look at the number of views!! way cool!!
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Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
 04/03/2007 01:48:17 PM
"Never in a blue moon" did I think I would see such a thing. Well, "Never say Never". Two famous quotes. It's gotta be Blue Cheese. Anyway, nice technique.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital
 04/03/2007 11:46:16 AM
i love the blue and the clarity. This is awesome! I need to get a telescope set up now.

Very nice!
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Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon
 04/03/2007 10:32:29 AM
Spectacular!
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Canon EOS-7D
Tamron AF 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical(IF)Macro
 04/02/2007 11:57:42 PM
very nice!
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
 03/30/2007 08:18:32 AM
Ha, Blue Moon, now I've got the song going through my head. Nice shot!
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 03/28/2007 09:41:59 PM
Woo-hoo!! First photo shout out!...and probably last, but yay!

Very nice detail, crop, and of course, awesome color :)
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