The *Official Photography Thread*

FedEx dude just delivered a new lens

 

God...damn!! Haha

 

Awesome!

 

Fedex or NASA?

 

WooT!

A 454 Chevelle in front of the Nuclear Museum!

 

Can you see Russia from your house?

edit: which foot are you using? I've got a RRS foot on my 500.

 

He can see Neil Armstrong's footprints from his house!

 

Not quite, haha. I wish I did have it during the last lunar eclipse!

 

It's the RRS as well

 

Point it at the moon tonight (it's pretty low on the horizon-maybe not).

 

I'm pretty excited about it. I was lurking craigslist and eBay for a 5DC and this popped up for $900 on CL and I emailed him instantly. Got an email to call him and he seemed super legit over the phone so I snagged it. Super nice guy, works for a marketing company and lives in the Hamptons. Company bought him a 5D3 so he was selling this haha.

 

I ended up shooting mine at 400mm on the Tamron 200-500.
I needed 400 to frame in the two stars that became visible. Too bad I couldn't get Mars in the frame, but it was too far away.

 

Is it visible yet? We were on the new moon just a couple of days ago.
Should be a really nice slice if you can find it tonight.

 

It is during the day. I saw it almost 3/4 of the way through it's arc across the sky, starting to set at about 11am pacific time

 

Yes. but it's also high in the sky-rise (for you) is 0845ish and the set is right around 0100.

I was looking this evening but for us, there are some scattered clouds that obscure it a bit. No moon for me.

 

I got REALLY lucky on that Milky Way shot.

I was worried that the windy conditions was going to be a problem, but it turned out pretty well.
I'm actually hoping to repeat the "performance" next new moon in Carlsbad NM.

Anyways... My classes were done, so I went to bed at 8 and set the alarm for midnight. Got up and headed out about 70 miles west of Phoenix then headed south until I found a nice dark spot.
Got back to my hotel at 4:30 and went back to bed.

Got back up at 8, grabbed a plate at IHOP, and hit the road to head home.
The entire sky was brown with blowing dust. Visibility wasn't horrible, but the sky was not blue.

Here's a couple more fun shots.

On the first one, I didn't even realize that I was getting the big dipper in the frame until I opened the file and I was like WOW!

Second one, I started having fun playing with the flash. I had set the white balance to tungsten to kill the yellow tint that I got on my first couple of shots, and I figured WTF... why not fire off the flash to pop some of the foreground.
Played with the bare flash, then with the Amberdome over it.

 

One of my water pics from last weekend.


DSC_5499_HDR by medic2230, on Flickr

 

^^^^^Awesome pic!

 

1. fake bokeh on this? which lens did you use?
2. composite photo? looks like you had used some ocf.

looks good though