Wow, this is awesome ! Looks like you're seeing it through a telescope.
Posted by vg at January 15, 2006 05:32 AMHow do you get a shot of the moon like this. You must have a monster lens to get this clarity = lovely.
Posted by slashermct at January 15, 2006 07:51 AMExcellent shot. So sharp and detailed.
Posted by Mark D at January 15, 2006 08:31 AMThat's a great shot of the moon, Sam, particularly the exposure! I assume you didn't take this from Toronto - wouldn't the city lights affect the sky?
Posted by Claude B at January 15, 2006 09:52 AMThe say before yesterday was really nice, hitting 7 degrees and all of a sudden yesterday was freezing. You must of a really cool camera to get that up close. Interesting shot.
Posted by NoLabels at January 15, 2006 10:43 AMi'm glad you put that up, i've been meaning to ask you...how easy is it to take a shot like this and get the defenition of the moon's surface?
Posted by rich at January 15, 2006 11:11 AMthats great. i was just trying to get some moon shots last night, nothing came out as good as this!
Posted by Jesse at January 15, 2006 11:20 AMIt's beautiful. Desktop sizes, maybe?
Posted by Mady at January 15, 2006 11:37 AMWish my 10x optical zoom would get me this close to the moon! Fabulous. Very clean and no moon glow/flare. :-)
Posted by DeWaun at January 15, 2006 11:41 AMThe moon was actually full last night
Posted by andrew at January 15, 2006 11:47 AMWow! I have not seen such an image of moon before. Which camera did you use to get this? Excellent result my friend.
Posted by VK Narayanan at January 15, 2006 01:10 PMbeautiful moon and nice shot.
Posted by Pooriya at January 15, 2006 02:10 PMthat's a great shot...and a heck of a zoom
Posted by Ash at January 15, 2006 02:10 PMawesome
Posted by Rob at January 15, 2006 05:53 PMA shot worthy of NASA.
Posted by Soloman at January 15, 2006 06:28 PMpretty good shot
the quality of the picture is amazing
beautiful
Posted by Elphaba at January 15, 2006 08:44 PMVery well done, Sam; but do you realize the extent to which you have surpassed yourself this time?
Some while ago you posted an image of a pumpkin wagon and field; also, one of a cemetery; both of which astounded some of your viewers (including me) because they were taken from a moving car. Now, please consider; the car may have been travelling at, say, 60 Kms/hr.
This time you were standing on a planet
orbiting at about 29.8 Kms/sec while rotating at .47 Kms/sec.
The mathematics involved is beyond me, but that's going by pretty darned quickly! Using a tripod would not have been cheating, but was that a really fast bit of panning?
The clarity of this shot is amazing. I have tried to capture shots like this but the clarity just isn't there. Then again I'm not using an L series lens. Any special post processing done with this one?
Posted by Shadowfind at January 15, 2006 09:02 PMAddenda:
In comparing the obvious difficulties of taking a subject at the speed of a car as opposed to the speed of the planet, we may be overlooking a major factor.
Making the shots from the car; you were sitting, very likely, quite comfortably on the inside and working through the window.
When shooting from the planet; you were, apparently, standing boldly on the outside surface.
I would suggest that very few of us could achieve such a good clear shot while standing on the hood of a car moving at, say, a mere 600 miles per hour.
I'm sort of glad there is probably a law against trying it :-)
Posted by Ron at January 15, 2006 09:11 PMb-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l....
Posted by prasoon at January 15, 2006 09:16 PMBeautiful!
Posted by Tara at January 15, 2006 10:27 PMEXIF Info on posted pic describes this:
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'FocalLength - 200 mm'
Are we talking a 200mm zoom then?
Just as well you didn't need a flash :P
Mars would be a bit more of a challenge though...
Posted by sledger at January 16, 2006 12:42 AMbeautiful :))
Posted by pajeczaki at January 16, 2006 01:10 AMhello
this is the first time that i visit your weblog ..its wonderfull
Mad scientists, Frankenstein, werewolves... eeeeerie~~~
Posted by PlasticTV at January 16, 2006 05:19 AMAMAZING ;o)
Posted by p23e at January 16, 2006 10:39 AMReally beautiful! Cheers!
Posted by Alice at January 16, 2006 12:03 PMFunny, my 200mm L lense gave me about half the size of this shot. Is this blown up or were you 50% closer to the moon than I am.... (?)
Posted by James at January 16, 2006 04:34 PMi tried out the ol' 210 lens trying to get a shot of the moon not too long ago, and got the same result as james here. ive been trying to photograph the moon like this for weeks now, but i have no idea what im doing wrong!
Posted by kans at January 17, 2006 12:45 AMhow in the world did you take this picture?! i've never had a successful moon shot... ofcourse my camera has a bit to do with it. but this is amazing.
Posted by nazzie at January 17, 2006 06:43 PMWow! This is beautiful. The contrast and hidden half of the moon are fantastic! Great color and composition too.
Posted by Abe at January 18, 2006 04:39 AMHey Sam, brilliant photo, as always! :) And this one jumped out at me, cos I did a similar one (though nowhere as good as yours).
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/bobinjames/IMG_0249.jpg
