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Full moon #2

by cimddwc · 2008-06-23

This time, however, not about the nonsense full moon mysticism and astrology, but a few photographic tests of mine with my Canon 40D with Tamron 28-300mm VC (click for large versions, which are crops without size changes):

The full moon a few nights ago behind the city hall tower pinnacle – unfortunately the moon wasn’t high enough to get behind the ball or the vane, but only behind the middle part of the pinnacle, and I didn’t want to climb on the roof…; the second image is the not perfectly succeeded attempt to focus on the tower:

With longer exposure, the moon gets too bright, of course, but you can dimly see the tower (yes, I should have focused on that) – first1 with 0.3s exposure time and without post-processing, then with 0.4s and a little color noise reduction and brightness curve adaption (if you don’t see anything above the ball above the moon, your monitor settings are wrong):

I wouldn’t be opposed to hints from (not only) professionals…

Photographed in the opposite order, of course, since the moon had moved farther to the west in the mean time. [↩]

A “child” grows up

by cimddwc · 2008-06-09

“Child”, in this case, referring to the new plants arising next to the mother plant in vegetative reproduction. Like at my guzmania a couple years ago, see image on the right. But instead of separating the children and plant them into little pots of their own (and put up with these 5 pots), I rather kept them together in their big pot.

In the mean time, the mother plant died, of course, as did one child; and now, one of the children (the one with the best lighting conditions) is bright red and preparing to blossom:

Update 7 July: » Go to a new photo

Cloud mountains art

by cimddwc · 2008-06-02

The art of nature – created in a very simple way from the pale original photo from yesterday’s sunset (bottom left) with a little color/contrast correction; bottom right is a more reddish intermediate step (click to enlarge):

Projekt 52 Week 20: Odd, strange, peculiar

by cimddwc · 2008-05-14

The topic of week 20 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

Odd, strange, peculiar things

Well, what to take? Arrange something on your own? (But what?) Hope to see something really strange this week (and have the camera ready)? Or do with something less spectacular (which fits the topic in some way)?

I decided to use this:

Week 20: Odd, strange, peculiar (1)

A few branches or beginning little trees growing on an old wall – alright, not that strange or peculiar, just a little odd, somehow unsuitable.

And additionally reaching into the archives, since the house on the right was recently torn down and the tree was felled even earlier:

Week 20: Odd, strange, peculiar (2)

Apart from the fact that the snow in March two years ago wasn’t that appropriate: A tree growing on top of the roof between two houses is certainly not at the most suitable place…

Update: Another photo can be found here.