not taken as many as Chris...

[Ian]

and it's time for my beauty sleep (yeah I know, )



taken at 22:35, Nikon D70 on the 8" F6, 20 seconds.

[Fay]

Ian,

A very beautiful image.  

I bet you and Chris have a few bags under your eyes today!!!


Fay

[JohnP]

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

[Ian]

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.

[Fay]

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

[Ian]

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

[Rocket Pooch]

BTW I like this image because its not noisy like mine, its really nice.

[Ian]

Cheers Chris,

just not quite in focus, which I need to work on.

[JohnP]

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

[Ian]

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...



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.