[GeoStL] Re: My Eclipse Photos

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Holy cow Uncle Zeb.. you must have been having one of your more lucid evenings huh? That must have all taken place before the beer set in. That's a lot of effort. You must certainly love your family to go through all of that for them. Hopefully the weather will break or the big pond will freeze so you can drive your 4-wheel drive on out to the fishin' hut again. 

Nancy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Zebco" <unclezebco@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:06 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: My Eclipse Photos



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Very cool pictures.
I have a series that look almost the same. 45 little white squiggly dots. I stood inside and every now and then just stuck my head out the door and snapped another. Wernt cold at all. Ma got me beers, we ate BBQ hog ear samiches (love them ears although snoots make a good sammich too) and we just had a regular lunar party.
Since I didn't like how the little dot looked soooo small, I re-shot the series by taking pictures of the streetlight across the street and just blotted out a bit more each time with my thumb. Since no one in my family knows diddly squat about what the lunar eclipse is supposed to look like they thought they were pretty good. :-) 


Uncle Zeb



Jim Bensman wrote:

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Yes it was COLD! Just standing around made it much worse. I was out at the viewing platform at the Hutchins Bird Sanctuary (right before you get to the Olin Nature Preserve). After it went into full eclipse I went home and took the rest from my front yard. There seemed to be mist in the air toward the end. Also toward the end, a plane flew overhead and the moon and con trail was lit up. It looked really neat and the con trail moved from one side of 
the moon to the other in about a minute.  You can see it in a couple of
pictures.
The cold made it hard to adjust the camera so I had to wear thin gloves. I 
wish I had more time to learn how to use my new camera as some came out
better than others.

I was using a tripod and timer.  I shot most of the pictures with an 18X
optical telephoto.  The shots where the moon is bigger, I also used the
digital zoom (it is a 5.1X zoom, but you get the moon over full frame if you use it all). I generally have not been pleased with the digital zoom as it 
tends to make it more fuzzy. I will now usually just crop.  The landscape
photos were shot at 27 mm. I shot at 8 megapixels. I used an ASA rating of between 200 and 800 (the camera will go to ASA 6,400 but it gets grainy). You should see my eagle pictures (you can see the detail of the feathers!). 
Sometime I will upload some of them and post a link.
I am using a Fuji FinePix S8000FD. The lens is amazing. It will focus to 1/2 inch and zooms from 27 mm wide angle to 18X. $350 at Creve Cour Camera. 





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