A short post today as I am off to get some images from the Grandview Gallop. Why is it that on any given work day I would give just about anything for another hour of sleep but on Saturday morning when I can sleep as late as I want, I’m up and charging at 4:00 am?
Anyway when I went out to the get the paper this morning I noticed the moon as I do on most mornings. Today, however, I had the time to set up the tripod and get the Sigma 500 mm lens out for the shot.
I tried a variety of settings and even added a 1.4 teleconvertor but this was the best of the lot. I shot this image in manual mode with an ISO of 200. F8 on the aperture and 1/400 of a second on the shutter speed. I set the metering on center weighted. I also used a shutter release and took the UV filter off. I also set the camera up to shoot in the 1.5 x cropped mode so I would have had a focal length of 750 mm.
It is probably one of the sharpest moon images I have taken but it still isn’t what I want. So I’ll get to keep on trying. Enjoy your Saturday. Be careful and thanks for stopping by.



You are way to hard on yourself. This is an amazing photo. Thanks for posting it. Have a good weekend.
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