I can talk the, um, mouth sounds, but can I stroll the amble? Well, kinda…
I did indeed get out early this morning in pursuit of Jupiter and the moon and all that, but I never had time to get the telescope up to speed, between two days of rain/overcast and being gone all day yesterday, too exhausted after that to start driving my frustration up with the ‘scope. So I simply went out at
So you wanna capture something fast, huh? It can be trickier than you think, so here are a few things to know and how to cope with them.
The very first thing is, the shutter curtains (the things that actually expose and re-conceal the sensor/film) are mechanical on most cameras and can only move so fast. It varies depending on the camera type and age, but for most modern DSLRs, they can uncover the
Finally getting back to the beach pics – would have been nice to have them up within the last month to drive the numbers up a little, but I was lazy. And really, you’re going to see a little too much of the same thing here, because it wasn’t the most productive of days photographically and the conditions were fairly narrow, but still better than the featureless
Coming up on October 6th at roughly 08:15 UTC (which translates to 4:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,) the crescent moon will occult Jupiter – for once, a nice target for an occultation, since it’s a planet and, at decent magnification, has both a shape and detail. Note that this is for North America and may not occur (or be hidden below the horizon) for many
Waiting until everyone’s attention was on the couple fighting over by the guacamole, September slips quietly out the door, but not before leaving a couple of abstracts on the gift table. Hey, why is it that on birthdays you open all the gifts in front of everyone, but for weddings you do it in the privacy of your own home? It’s completely ruined the fun of gag gifts…
Anyway, it’s
While macro photography can be fun and fascinating, it does require at least a little specialized equipment. Dedicated macro lenses tend to be quite expensive, and while they remain the best way to tackle the genre, there are other options. But first, let’s see why they’re usually the best option.
Full range of focus. Macro lenses can usually focus from 15cm, give or
Trying to get back into things now, after a beach trip this weekend – not the best time for it, but the opportunities weren’t coming up earlier. After a ridiculously hot summer, autumn weather came in abruptly, and Saturday was perpetual overcast and a little chilly, so scenic options were extremely limited and it wasn’t a good time to get in the water. Sunday
I was about to title this post, “Just playing,” because it was a quick effort to get a few clear closeups of a jagged ambush bug (Genus Phymata,) but considering the number of frames that I shot trying to get these, it hardly counts as foolin’ around. It was also intended as a lead-in to a further bit of news, but that hasn’t been done yet, so here we are.
Once again courtesy of Astronomy Picture of the Day, a few days back, we have a wicked conjunction:
first off, pretty decent image of sunspots, clearly taken with a solar filter. Getting the timing and focus down to capture the International Space Station so
I had a few wood duck photos to feature, a teaser until I get the video clips together, and I was thinking it’d be a nice change because we hadn’t had wood ducks for a while. So, exhausting researcher that I am, I looked for the last appearance of “wood duck” on the blog.
Which was yesterday,
