Mathers' Blog

It’s a full moon!

Here are a set of pics with the d40 at 200mm.

The last photo was at f16, shutter 1/320. O’man and I read a blog once that said you can get great moon shots with a small aperture and fast shutter. That gets the details, then you can clean it up in photoslop.

These are 100% crops, so a better camera would give you a bigger moon.

Nikon’s RAW photo format is NEF. I switched my D40 to save in raw today rather than jpg. The photo size went from about 2 to 5MB. Not a big deal. Totally not a big deal if your memory card is big enough.

Here is a quick example of what I was able to do with an image in NEF.

The first pic is the original. That’s how it looked on the camera.

The second is after making a few adjustments in a program like photivo or photoshop’s camera raw.

I had no idea. Sold.

Connect the dots and it spells DIRTY.

Two pictures from two seasons take 2.5 years apart.

In one, a cold bitter landscape perfect for flinging yourself down in a hill in a card board box.

The other, an allergenic, mosquito infested hell scape.

I prefer box sled stunt man to cow in a field.