Hi all Thanks for all the comments - much appreciated.
Addressing some specific questions/comments..... Quoting Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Excellent Brian! Why not submit it to www.spaceweather.com? > Thanks, Tom. Hadn't thought of that but I took a look at what they had and there were already some similar composites there. Quoting David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Seriously cool Brian. > Although I didn't realise that the moon rose & fell like that :-) You mean it doesn't look like that over in the west?..... :-)> Quoting Igor Roshchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Great! > Nice idea and wonderful implementation. > "Photo Every So Often" has a special meaning with this image. :-) > > Igor Thanks Igor - I guess I can claim to have submitted 20 PESOs in the one day. Is that a record? Quoting Peter McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wow! Love it! How did you make the composite? > Ciao, > Peter in western Sydney Nothing particularly innovative. I just created a black image 3000 x 2000 pixels and then in Photoshop Elements I cut and pasted images from the various image files into separate layers. Then it was just a case of moving them around until they formed the parabolic shape (a grid helped with this). Quoting Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> If that was a failure then you made an impressive recovery, it > looks > like it should be on one of those astro photo of the day pages ;-) > Nicely done. > > Rob Studdert Thanks Rob - I invested a couple of hours into taking the images and was determined to save something from the debacle... :-)> Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/brianwalters +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Quoting Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all > > My attempts at photographing last night's eclipse seem to have > struck similar problems to others - noisy images that, in my case, > looked abysmal at full totality. > > The only answer was to reduce the size of the images and make a > composite. All told I took about 50 photos from start to finish of > the eclipse - the composite is made up of 20. > > I used a Tamron SP 300 mm lens plus 2x converter at shot at ISO 800 > to try to keep movement of the moon during the exposures to a > minimum. > > The result is at: > > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/71394/Moon_Eclipse_Composite.html > > > Comments, as always, welcome. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a free email address with REAL anti-spam protection. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/1 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
