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Catawampus wrote:

Hansontoons wrote:And great color in the sunset.

The camera didn't pick up the reds that well. I might try fiddling around with the settings, see if there's some sort of colour balance adjustment function. Or I'll accidentally activate the reactor scram function. There are some weird menus on that camera. . .

Have you tried using raw mode? Bypass all of the in-camera processing, grab the pixels right off of the sensor, and do all of the conversions and color management on a PC.

It's more work for sure, but you get to try out various different tweaks in the raw-conversion process before you commit to one. If the camera does the raw-to-JPEG conversion itself, you've only got one chance per photo to get it right.

Dave wrote:

Catawampus wrote:

Hansontoons wrote:And great color in the sunset.

The camera didn't pick up the reds that well. I might try fiddling around with the settings, see if there's some sort of colour balance adjustment function. Or I'll accidentally activate the reactor scram function. There are some weird menus on that camera. . .

Have you tried using raw mode? Bypass all of the in-camera processing, grab the pixels right off of the sensor, and do all of the conversions and color management on a PC.

It's more work for sure, but you get to try out various different tweaks in the raw-conversion process before you commit to one. If the camera does the raw-to-JPEG conversion itself, you've only got one chance per photo to get it right.

Yah, I need to do that too.

Dave wrote:Have you tried using raw mode? Bypass all of the in-camera processing, grab the pixels right off of the sensor, and do all of the conversions and color management on a PC.

It's more work for sure, but you get to try out various different tweaks in the raw-conversion process before you commit to one. If the camera does the raw-to-JPEG conversion itself, you've only got one chance per photo to get it right.

Then I'll have to find some acceptable computer software that lets me edit the photos. . .

Catawampus wrote:[qThen I'll have to find some acceptable computer software that lets me edit the photos. . .

I've been using Digikam for several years... free and quite effective for these sorts of purposes.

Dave wrote:

Catawampus wrote:[qThen I'll have to find some acceptable computer software that lets me edit the photos. . .

I've been using Digikam for several years... free and quite effective for these sorts of purposes.

Linux has several programs that can handle RAW photos. I can't tell you which one works best, though, as I have not had a camera that produces RAW photos, until recently, when my friend gave me his old Canon Rebel XT, after he upgraded to a Canon EOS 70D. I look forward to using it, once I purchase a decent lens for it.

Couple of shots from this morning. The two images are as-taken and after fiddling with jpeg file. Might have been a little better if I would have managed to drag it outside earlier. But it was cold (around 34 F) and Jasper wanted to walk. It's amazing how quiet the neighborhood gets when nobody's air conditioners are running!

The Moon. It's just right there. Lets go back...

TazManiac wrote:The Moon. It's just right there. Lets go back...

I'll get out the extension ladder. . .

I just had a crazy picture in my head of all the World's Ladders duct taped and bungee corded together, long enough, high enough, to reach right up to the Moon.

You’d have to jump for it the last few feet, Ladder to Lunar Ridge Line, as it went whizzing by...

TazManiac wrote:I just had a crazy picture in my head of all the World's Ladders duct taped and bungee corded together, long enough, high enough, to reach right up to the Moon.

You’d have to jump for it the last few feet, Ladder to Lunar Ridge Line, as it went whizzing by...

... at somewhere around 17 miles per second.

The last time this was tried was back in 1930, and the intrepid explorer was never seen again.

17 Miles per second... huh... OK, wait a min...

When you get to the top of the Ladder, that's when you kick off the Jetpack...

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Upon a successful launch you, or your estate, is approved to sport the following shoulder patch...



PS- During my searches, I was surprised how much how much old school cheesecake there was fort he 'Rocketeer'...

Yup. That one bad guy had a rubber face.

Sure has been quiet. Too much turkey? Black Friday adventures? Or just ducking and covering?

Regardless, I hope all are well and content. There was talk of sunsets a while back, here's about as close as I get. Jasper and I were out for a stroll through the woodsy part of our walk and I liked the sun on the trees, cellphone photo did ok in capturing it.

Hansontoons wrote:

Typeminer wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:I was wondering who was going to take those photos and when they would get posted, what with last Sunday being the closest the moon has been to the earth in 70+ years, or somesuch...

I can't decide which photo I like best... I like the darker portion at the top of the second one, which happens to put the craters in contrast.

Nice! I agree about the second one.

Both pics were fiddled with to bring out contrast and shading, thus the second being a little darker. Otherwise, the originals are identical in look.

My daughter and I built an 8" reflector telescope years back. It really brings the moon in. It's good enough to see Jupiter's banding (faintly), ring band on Saturn, and ice cap on Mars. Not bad for a kit and cardboard construction tube!

What kind of camera is yours? If it's interchangeable lens, you might be able to get a T-mount adaptor for it, and a T-mount adaptor to replace the scope eyepiece...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:What kind of camera is yours? If it's interchangeable lens, you might be able to get a T-mount adaptor for it, and a T-mount adaptor to replace the scope eyepiece...

Nikon D5000

And for those of you that are descending into months of short days and cold nights, put this up as a screensaver and dream!

Sunset was at 16:40 local time today, and there's still 20 days till the solstice. I don't like this trend a whole lot.

My screensaver image is still a Martian rockfield from Spirit. Mars weather always puts the temperature in my office into perspective.

Boy, a month ago I couldn't believe it was Halloween already, and now that seems like another lifetime. But we did get a couple inches of slow rain over the past two days, and that should moisten the soil enough that anything further can help the water table. It's been dry.

Typeminer wrote:Sunset was at 16:40 local time today, and there's still 20 days till the solstice. I don't like this trend a whole lot.

My screensaver image is still a Martian rockfield from Spirit. Mars weather always puts the temperature in my office into perspective.

Boy, a month ago I couldn't believe it was Halloween already, and now that seems like another lifetime. But we did get a couple inches of slow rain over the past two days, and that should moisten the soil enough that anything further can help the water table. It's been dry.

Woof. 16:40 sunset, talk about brutal. Call it 17:20 where I am. I shoot for a 16:00 departure from work so I can get home in time to get a dog walk in before dark. She doesn't like walking much past dusk. Me neither, the skunks start popping up out of their burrow around then.

Typeminer wrote:Sunset was at 16:40 local time today, and there's still 20 days till the solstice. I don't like this trend a whole lot.

If the current trend continues, by the end of 2017 we'll be in perpetual darkness.

Hansontoons wrote:Woof. 16:40 sunset, talk about brutal. Call it 17:20 where I am.

16:26 here.

17:25 here at 34° 19' N/83° 48' W.