and it's time for my beauty sleep (yeah I know, :P )
(http://www.itinerant-services.ltd.uk/DSC_2777.jpg)
taken at 22:35, Nikon D70 on the 8" F6, 20 seconds.
Ian,
A very beautiful image.
I bet you and Chris have a few bags under your eyes today!!!
Fay
Hi Ian,
nice one - I also took a few with the EOS through the ZS66 - I'll post when I have had a chance to upload. It was really cool - even Luke was out there with his little compact & will post his attempts soon.
Cheers, John
looking forward to seeing them John.
I think it'd be good to be in a dark site to watch an eclipse one year. It looks a little too much like sodium glow in a suburban sky to really understand the wonder a lunar eclipse used to be viewed with...
John, if we get a chance, I'd like to look at your focussing techniques for using the SLR at DSC, the focus on my images last night was not brilliant.
Was mistaken in mentioning baggy eyes!
Because I am not quite with it, this week, I thought the eclipse was going to be in the early hours of the morning.
Fay
Fay, I didn't actually stay up for the whole eclipse I was knackered. But even so, by the time I'd posted a bit on here and packed away it was plenty late anyway.
Bags under the eyes are pretty usual for me, my 3 year old refuses to sleep for a whole night still :(
BTW I like this image because its not noisy like mine, its really nice.
Cheers Chris,
just not quite in focus, which I need to work on.
Hi Ian,
It looks pretty close to me. What format did you shoot in. Did you shoot Raw - in this instance the camera doesn't do any sharpening for you so raw images always looks slightly less sharp than Jpeg's. If you apply a very light unsharp mask in PS it brings it up nicely. I took the liberty & did it for you & have reattached result below - looks nice & sharp to me.
By the way I use DSLR Focus as my capture & focus prog - I can show you at next DSC.
Cheers, John
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.punnett/graphics/oas/DSC_2777edit.jpg)
John, that looks better. I've had another play with the NEF and with a small amount of smoothing to remove noise and a gentle unsharp mask to bring the details back out it looks like this...
(http://www.itinerant-services.ltd.uk/DSC_2779.jpg)
If you'd like to play with the nef it's here...
http://www.itinerant-services.ltd.uk/DSC_2779.nef
I'll certainly be looking over your shoulder during DSC.