A shot of the Super Moon the other night

[fast14riot]

Well, when I heard the moon was going to be in its closest part of orbit the other night I decided to grab a few pics.

Here is one I got, I wish I had a telescope for better/closer images, but a 450mm lens will have to do until that day comes.

Nikon D200 on tripod
Nikkor 300mm (450mm effective)
f/7.1 @ 1/160
iso 100

Anyone else get any shots of the Super Moon the other night?


-Xander

 

[fast14riot]

Thanx! I am constantly impressed with this old camera, the image quality is more than adequite even with the huge crop I had to do to this shot. I normally shoot in .jpg/basic format, too. looks like 10.1mp is just fine for everything I do, proof that the investment in good glass is where its at!


-Xander

 

[fast14riot]

I have done 16x20 prints which unless you put your nose against the glass is just as good as "better" cameras. Now I wouldn't expect an architechtural image at that size to be as crisp and clean as a image of 20mp+ body, but for landscape and portraits it works fine.

-Xander

 

[DirtDiver]

I took a picture of the moon once or twice, but I missed that whole supermoon thing.

this is with my D5100 and 300mm lens

 

[Blooze]

Nice shots! I'm still impressed with my D200 and even my little D40. In fact, if not cropping I'd put the shots out of my D40 at 8x12 as good or better than the D200. Would love to get my a 300mm though. I've also started a habit, good or bad, of leaving my remote release on the D200 and using my left hand to trigger it. I seem to be able to get crisper shots that way. Guess I have a tendency to move the camera using my right hand trigger finger.

 

[MaxP]

Nice.

Thank you. It was cloudy here in Iowa.

 

[life2short1971]

I took a picture of the moon once or twice, but I missed that whole supermoon thing.

this is with my D5100 and 300mm lens

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Whatever makes those huge craters hits earth too! Scary. You can see debris that shot 1/4 its way around after impact.

 

[fast14riot]

DirtDiver, great images! I almost wish it wasn't the super moon because it was so bright that much of the detail was blown out, even at -3 full stops. I deffinetly plan to shoot it next month to see how it does not so bright. It was actually bright enough to read at midnight!


-X

 

[DirtDiver]

Thanks guys. These were last year when I first got into the whole photography thing. Then I got married in April ^o^