Very nice catch, Chuck. There was a new moon on Wednesday, so you did well
to see it!
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 10:49 AM
Subject: [OM] I've added my night shot to TOPE2
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=4354>
>
> This is the backyard at my daughter's house in High Point, North
> Carolina the morning after I shot the soccer game. It wasn't in my plan
> to submit this as the "night shot" but when I stumbled down the stairs
> in the early morning for some coffee I could see this scene depicted
> from the many windows along the back side of the house.
>
> I had no idea if anything useful was going to result. It was impossible
> to focus but I recalled that the last shot at the soccer game was taken
> from about 30-40 feet away at 150mm. I was just hoping that at 14mm I'd
> have something near hyperfocal distance even focused at 30 feet. Turns
> out to have been true. I had no tripod available so rested the camera
> on the railing of the back deck and pressed down hard with my hand on
> top of the camera while I fired the shutter with the other. The first
> (auto) exposure was impossibly long (trying to produce daylight
> apparently) so I took a guess, took a shot and then reset the shutter
> speed to manual 0.6 sec for the next guess. What you see is that shot
> brightened about 1/2 stop. The only other adjustment was to add
> something from the clarity slider which had the effect of slightly
> brightening the orange of the coming sunrise. Oops. I almost forgot.
> I did clone out two very small yellow lights on the far bank as a
> distraction. I don't know what they are since no one lives there.
>
> The small lake in the background it the town's reservoir and the bright
> spot in the trees is the moon.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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