DonnaW
Nice pic!! I will buy the first book, but you have to sign it ;-)
celticvoice
WOW! Re Moon shots, I use the daylight settings (white balance) at a LOT of zoom. Night shots, I use either a long manually set exposure or set the semi-auto exposure to the moon shape or moon"+" sign (longer exposure, about 4 seconds). The one with the trees I used a one second ezxposure, handheld, not easy! (I don't have a tripod)
celticvoice
If I were using my Pentax film SLR I would use a tripod, set a manual exposure time and a cable shutter release so that I would not shake the camerea. But I don;t use my Pentax much any more, no good film processors fhere. I miss the fast action on the SLRs - digis have a delay in taking a shot, and mine is really slow as it has a CD and no buffer memeory - it cannot do rapid fire shots either. (it has to wait for ther CD to start spinning)
celticvoice
But I am not a pro 'togger anymore. I used to have a Nikon with auto film advance, 80/200 telefoto, big tripod and all that jazz, which went "the other way" when my first marriage split (I got the horses so I was happy).
celticvoice
WOW again, I love the wings - - I am ok, not better. Grieving takes time and I have learned over the years and many animals that, however deeply one loved, that is how deeply one grieves, animal or person. Thanks for your wonderful messages - time and the Lord heals all!
cookie
incredible that you can capture that beautiful little guy!
pauljapan
Great photo!!!
tanddjohnson
another great one Missy. I don't seem to have any hummers this year.
FocalAnLae
Geez I love this - it's me, Diane. I put two night shot up for you on THIS album for you to see what I did . . . nmot moon shots. If you didn't understand the "Moon+" lingo I will put up the directions from my manual . . . most semi-autocams have such settings. The "white balance" is different, it allows me to change what "white" looks like so I get the "real" moon color . . . I don;t have to change the exposure AS LONG AS the spotmeter is ON the moon . . .
FocalAnLae
Also manual exposure took me awhile to learn to set. I have a terrible time with manual focus - I took a GREAT shot of a finch at the birdbath and the autofocus changed before the shutter released, why I do not know, and focussed on the GRASS! AUGH! While I fiddled with manual focus instead, the bird flew away . . . Oh! for a real SLR with a telefoto! (I presently have a 50mm lens; plus film processing out here stinks) Ah well . . .
jimvoves
A perfect picture it is. Yes I did see this yesterday and it is hard to keep telling you in so many ways just how good you are.