_DG14944 e2 DF LM
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
A lot of speculation in this image. I have never attempted anything remotely like this.
This is Venus near to setting at 2300 hrs tonight. The planet has an elliptical movement in its juxtaposition with earth. At present it is at is closest to earth - about 24 million miles. At the opposite end of its ellipse it will be 260 million miles away. For the next few days it will remain very bright in the NW sky between dusk and about midnight.
Lens used was my long range wildlife lens giving 1200 mm equivalence into a RAW file or 2400mm into a jpg. This was imported for edit as a RAW.
Taken at 5000 ISO, wide open at F8, and 1 second. I felt that every aspect of this shot was chancing my hand. The tripod was my very solid old Gitzo with a gimbal head. Manual focus with focus peaking to get it reasonably sharp. 4800 WB.
I had hoped that I might get a combination of mountain horizon, distant tree silhouettes, as Venus set, but this did not work too well, although I did get the moments of the planet setting captured.
_DG14944 e2 DF LM
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
A lot of speculation in this image. I have never attempted anything remotely like this.
This is Venus near to setting at 2300 hrs tonight. The planet has an elliptical movement in its juxtaposition with earth. At present it is at is closest to earth - about 24 million miles. At the opposite end of its ellipse it will be 260 million miles away. For the next few days it will remain very bright in the NW sky between dusk and about midnight.
Lens used was my long range wildlife lens giving 1200 mm equivalence into a RAW file or 2400mm into a jpg. This was imported for edit as a RAW.
Taken at 5000 ISO, wide open at F8, and 1 second. I felt that every aspect of this shot was chancing my hand. The tripod was my very solid old Gitzo with a gimbal head. Manual focus with focus peaking to get it reasonably sharp. 4800 WB.
I had hoped that I might get a combination of mountain horizon, distant tree silhouettes, as Venus set, but this did not work too well, although I did get the moments of the planet setting captured.