Church and Moon

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 Dennis

Above is a photo that I shot some time ago. I saw the moon beside the St. Petri Church in Lübeck and liked the scene. What I noticed or learned is that sometimes the moon will appear much bigger if there is an object in the foreground. I think same counts if the moon is near the horizon and if I am not wrong it’s called Moon Illusion. I believe lens compression helps too if you shoot with a Tele lens. I shot the photo with my Tamron 70-300mm lens. I have an old post from 2013 where you can … Continue reading Church and Moon

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Lunar Eclipse 2018 In Northern Germany

July 27, 2018July 28, 2018 Dennis

I heard all the chatter about the lunar eclipse today but the strong summer heat made me a bit too lazy to research when exactly it’s going to happen here at our place. I actually forgot about it and went … Continue reading Lunar Eclipse 2018 In Northern Germany

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Experimental Moon Photo

April 17, 2016 Dennis

It’s nighttime and the night sky is cloud-free, the moon visible, and I thought I try to take a picture. I did set up my tripod, the D7100 and my Tamron 70-300mm lens. I activated the 1.3 crop mode of my D7100, then I disabled the vibration reduction mode of the lens as I wanted to use my tripod anyway. Apart from that, I enabled RAW and JPG fine, to see if I can get a little bit more quality out of the RAW file. I did set the camera manually to ISO 100, f/10 and 1/200 of a second. … Continue reading Experimental Moon Photo