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The brightest spot in this photograph is actually the eclipsed moon, as seen at 1:26am local Mountain Time on April 15, 2014, photographed in a high mountain pass near Bailey Colorado. To see the moon by itself, in a completely un-retouched/unaltered photo (except for cropping to cut down on all the extra black space) - just a couple minutes earlier, open this image: http://bylagarto.com/images/60D-201.....15-67-crop.jpg
The moon fully eclipsed, but I needed to get home. We drove from 4 Corners Monument starting around 4pm, and arrived home in Denver at 2:45am!
Technical details: the pincushion distortion (bent trees, lower right) is caused by the 10mm lens I used to make this image. That lens, though, allows view of amazing sky width. The close shot of the moon in the reference pic (linked above), was taken at 200mm with a different lens, and a much shorter exposure time. The bright light over the mountain in the lower left is light pollution from the Denver metropolitan area, seen to the east of this location.
The moon fully eclipsed, but I needed to get home. We drove from 4 Corners Monument starting around 4pm, and arrived home in Denver at 2:45am!
Technical details: the pincushion distortion (bent trees, lower right) is caused by the 10mm lens I used to make this image. That lens, though, allows view of amazing sky width. The close shot of the moon in the reference pic (linked above), was taken at 200mm with a different lens, and a much shorter exposure time. The bright light over the mountain in the lower left is light pollution from the Denver metropolitan area, seen to the east of this location.
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It's usually far too bright in Denver at night to see many stars, aside from the brightest ones. I was very excited when my copilot
hyper noted from his research that there was an eclipse going on, and at a time when we'd be driving at night in the wilderness anyway! If we had not both been so tired (700 miles drive starting at 10am, with multiple stops), I would have stayed in that mountain pass or another one even further from Denver, to witness and document the eclipse in full.
I regard this whole photo safari as an extreme bonus. Normally, when I drive at night through mountain passes, I can not really see much detail at all. Only the slow exposure photographs bring the nature alive in vibrant fashion with this little light in play.
It's usually far too bright in Denver at night to see many stars, aside from the brightest ones. I was very excited when my copilot
hyper noted from his research that there was an eclipse going on, and at a time when we'd be driving at night in the wilderness anyway! If we had not both been so tired (700 miles drive starting at 10am, with multiple stops), I would have stayed in that mountain pass or another one even further from Denver, to witness and document the eclipse in full.I regard this whole photo safari as an extreme bonus. Normally, when I drive at night through mountain passes, I can not really see much detail at all. Only the slow exposure photographs bring the nature alive in vibrant fashion with this little light in play.
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Photo, no - FA says "no pics of an inventory of stuff you own" (I am paraphrasing), so I never bothered making a pic of all my camera gear
But here's the list:
Canon 70D
Canon 60D
Canon 20D
Canon 10s film camera (1989)
Canon USM lenses:
28mm f1.8
50mm f1.4
10-22mm zoom
18-200mm zoom
6.5mm fisheye Opteka manual focus
OLD non USM lenses, purchased before I could afford the good ones:
18-55mm zoom (bundled with the 20D, bought in 2005)
75-300mm zoom (bought in 1990)
50mm f1.8 (bought in 1989)
28mm f2.8 (bought in 1989)
Canon 430EX Speedlite Flash
Canon extension tube
My first high quality SLR camera was a Minolta X370 film body with a 50mm fixed focal length Minolta lens, and I had a couple of cheap Albinar zoom lenses, Vivitar flash, and a motor-winder. This was pre-auto-focus era equipment I bought from my first job at the age of 14. I sold that stuff to help fund the purchase of my Canon. I have never sold any of my Canon gear, which I began collecting when I was 18 years old. I chose Canon over Nikon, Minolta, Pentax, as they were the only one with compatibility between their EF lenses and the video system XL1 camcorder at the time. I thought that was innovative and sensible. I have since 1989 always been a Canon user. Nikon remains as the only other maker who survived the '90s with high end offerings for SLR cameras, and while their systems are similar in both price and quality to Canon, a user has to choose one make - or risk incompatibility with various accessories on future purchases.
But here's the list:
Canon 70D
Canon 60D
Canon 20D
Canon 10s film camera (1989)
Canon USM lenses:
28mm f1.8
50mm f1.4
10-22mm zoom
18-200mm zoom
6.5mm fisheye Opteka manual focus
OLD non USM lenses, purchased before I could afford the good ones:
18-55mm zoom (bundled with the 20D, bought in 2005)
75-300mm zoom (bought in 1990)
50mm f1.8 (bought in 1989)
28mm f2.8 (bought in 1989)
Canon 430EX Speedlite Flash
Canon extension tube
My first high quality SLR camera was a Minolta X370 film body with a 50mm fixed focal length Minolta lens, and I had a couple of cheap Albinar zoom lenses, Vivitar flash, and a motor-winder. This was pre-auto-focus era equipment I bought from my first job at the age of 14. I sold that stuff to help fund the purchase of my Canon. I have never sold any of my Canon gear, which I began collecting when I was 18 years old. I chose Canon over Nikon, Minolta, Pentax, as they were the only one with compatibility between their EF lenses and the video system XL1 camcorder at the time. I thought that was innovative and sensible. I have since 1989 always been a Canon user. Nikon remains as the only other maker who survived the '90s with high end offerings for SLR cameras, and while their systems are similar in both price and quality to Canon, a user has to choose one make - or risk incompatibility with various accessories on future purchases.
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