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[Badcast]

Antonio, thanks for your encouragement and comment. This was not a very good capture and I can do better.

Randy

[Antonio Correia]

Antonio, thanks for your encouragement and comment. This was not a very good capture and I can do better. Randy

I am sure you can Randy. Show it to us, will you ?!

[Vandenberg]

Sorry but this time I placed a very annoying water mark on the photo...

It was so disgusting that I changed the image for this one.

nice antonio, bit small but it will do

[Antonio Correia]

I don't want you to feel unhappy Vandenberg
I read in the paper today that the sky in Lisbon was cloudy and people couldn't see the eclipse the way they would like to. In Setubal - some 45 kms away - the sky was clear.

[Ashwin]

Ashwin, not all are dishonest, but most are, from what I've observed over my years on Terra Firma.
Cheers.......Edwin.

Edwin, thank you for your frank opinion...

I am also of the opinion that there are more dishonest politician than HONEST

[Antonio Correia]

edwin, thank you for your frank opinion...

I am also of the opinion that there are more dishonest politician than honest

[Ashwin]

everyone thinks (at least some here on this forum does) that i fake the bokeh and do a lot of tweaks on my photo's
sooc from the bike, offcours i added the scratches and dust later

Vandenberg, do the good work for your satisfaction, and others to appreciate/learn if they can, don't think about what opinion others have about your posting of images..

[Ashwin]

Do you agree or disagree..?

[Vandenberg]

I don't want you to feel unhappy Vandenberg
I read in the paper today that the sky in Lisbon was cloudy and people couldn't see the eclipse the way they would like to. In Setubal - some 45 kms away - the sky was clear.

what lens did u use to shoot this, very interesting to try this once

thank you ashwin, for your comment, You're right
will do what i like best, and i have many followers from around the world who agree with me on 500pix
http://500px.com/vandenberg/followers

[Ashwin]

I don't want you to feel unhappy Vandenberg
I read in the paper today that the sky in Lisbon was cloudy and people couldn't see the eclipse the way they would like to. In Setubal - some 45 kms away - the sky was clear.

Good capture of series of Lunar Eclipse photograps
Antonio, can you do a favour and send me all the lunar eclipse photographs you have taken....
How much time you waited to do this good work

[Antonio Correia]

Do you agree or disagree..?

I agree. Absolutely ! ! ...
You are right

[Antonio Correia]

what lens did u use to shoot this, very interesting to try this once
...

I kept my ISO and aperture all the time adjusting only the speed.
I started at 1/200s and ended at 1/400s with aperture at f/4.5 with ISO 200.
I was using a Canon 20D + 1.4 converter + 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM IS @ 200mm what means: 1.6 * 1.4 * 200 = 448 mm
I had no problem with focusing because to begin with I used the central point to focus and then switched it off taking care not to touch the focus ring.
My tripod is a very poor one. The final image is a careful composition of several shots.

I also noticed that earlier - on the right in my picture - the light is warmer than later on. I played a bit with the filters to enhance that effect.
When I came home my wife and myself went outside and we could see that the sky was very clear and the Moon very bright. Absolutely no clouds or mist of any kind.
My wife even commented that the fields under the moonlight should be very nice due to the strength of the light.
I have once been in the country side under full moon just to shoot. It is not easy in Portugal as there is many houses everywhere and so, there is always much artificial light which is pernicious for long exposures of 30 seconds and more.
It may also be dangerous. Just standing in the middle of nowhere with no time to run away from someone whose intentions may not be the best is not the best way to shoot.
In another occasion I went with somebody else. In fact with 4 men and a woman. We had fun shooting in the dark.
Huumm a nice experience to try again some day with my small photography group

I read on the newspaper today that in Lisbon the sky was cloudy.

[Antonio Correia]

Good capture of series of Lunar Eclipse photograps
Antonio, can you do a favour and send me all the lunar eclipse photographs you have taken....
How much time you waited to do this good work

I guess I have been on the spot about 2 hours or 2h 30m.
At the computer, 1 hours and a half maybe because I have done twice to get a good result.

You want my pictures ????

[Vandenberg]

It may also be dangerous. Just standing in the middle of nowhere with no time to run away from someone whose intentions may not be the best is not the best way to.

just take your canon and shoot the *****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awq90...layer_embedded

its a bit like night photography, tripod,fixed iso and apertures
I'll go once to an star observatory here near by (everything here is near by in Holland )
anyway, thanks for the info, will give it a go sometime this year

[Antonio Correia]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awq90...layer_embedded
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I saw this before. Funny, but it is with Nikon

[Vandenberg]

but canons shoot better

[arith]

Stapenhill Gardens.

[Antonio Correia]

Stapenhill Gardens.

Very British Steve
And very nice Well done, nice work.
Perhaps a person on the scene would be interesting...

[arith]

Cheers Antonio; I even cloned out a bright green shed on the left. I used to think that was too much manipulation.

[Ollokot]

Stone Built Breakwater Pillmore Ireland,early mornning.