Nikon DSLR "Picture Of The Day"

Here's another one from my trip to the Lake Districts earlier this year.

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Nikon D3000 w/ kit lens
Shutter speed: 1/250s
f/10
ISO: 250
Focal length 18mm

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Moonfruit tree! :)

D7000; 18-200 @ 200; ISO 125; 1/30s; f/11; tripod; polariser; v. slight sharpening.

Interesting take on a popular theme. I'm not sure it works completely bu I like your outside the box thinking.

Sir Les,

I think I might like the moon shot better if the branch was in focus. Perhaps a bit of focus stacking or digital double exposure...

Thanks for your comments guys, I appreciate the feedback. I have to admit that fuzzy foregrounds don't work most of the time. My problem was that the tree was very near and the moon so far away, so one or the other was going to be out of focus. To be honest I didn't think of focus stacking or double exposure, but do either of these methods work with moving subjects (both the moon and the tree leaves)?

My real regret was the photo that got away -- just after I packed up my gear, a large jet passenger aircraft with a glittering vapour trail passed right across the face of the moon. Now that would have been something!

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Originally Posted by Sir Les

My real regret was the photo that got away --

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Yours and probably one million other peoples as well. I had a virtually identical experience two weeks ago. I set up a shot on a mountain bike track the forest and waited in vain for nearly half an hour for somebody to come along. You can probably figure the rest.

Sir Les the movement would make any difference if you:
take 1 photo of the tree
take 1 photo of the moon
In your editing program combine the 2.

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Nik HDR Efex Pro
Five shots -2, -1, 0, +1, +2

Havent posted in a while here are a few from yesterday's day on the track

My first time taking photos on the track was very enjoyable I may even say therapeutic :)

Cc always welcome

If you look closely you can see the sparks off the muffler scraping on the first one


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#2 is a fabulous panning shot. excellent work mate !