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Some bees here.

Now that I’ve posted them, I’m wondering whether my pirate B&D shot would’ve appealed more to Fark’s prurient nature…

Haven’t heard of the word “prurient” before. I looked it up. Thanks for the vocab!

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Loki, I’m so glad you asked that because I really thought I had nothing and wasn’t going to post anything, and now I’ve gone back to look through my the playground pics I have to see if I have anything. I hope you get an answer!

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Ok, here’s the result of last night’s stargazing. It’s a bit fuzzy if you view full size, but better than the previous attempts in the night.

Full size here: http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/clouddancer19/nightsky.jpg

Not fantastic, and definitely room for improvement, which should be easier now that I have a little direction thanks to you all. 🙂

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Also, and especially if you are shooting in camera jpeg on long exposures, there is a setting called “long exposure noise reduction” in the menu. You should turn that on prior to doing any shot over 1-2 seconds. If you are shooting RAW it doesn’t matter so much, but the in camera processing of a jpeg gets noisy without LENR turned on.

Found it. Thanks for pointing that out! I never would have looked in the “custom functions” otherwise. If the skies are again clear tonight, I’ll attempt again. The last few I got I think came out pretty good for a first try at this, way better than the ones I got earlier. There was some noise, perhaps a tiny bit of camera shake, though I’ll set to a 2-second delay when I go again to minimize that bit. I will be looking into getting a remote shutter release in the future. It seems Canon has them on Amazon for around $30, so that shouldn’t be too hard to get.

Thanks for the input, Kes, CISS, orionid, Farktographer, Caradoc, and ennui. I do appreciate it muchly.

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I’m either dense, or its not there, but I can’t find the infinity symbol on either of my lenses. My lenses are: EFS 18-55 mm (the kit lens) and EF 75-300 mm, both Canon, and the camera was purchased September 2010.

I’m done with work soon anyway, so I’ll be heading back outside again to see what I can put to use.

Edit: Also, is this a situation where I want a low f/stop or a high f/stop?

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Beautiful! Thank you! Didn’t mean to be so confusing tonight. Sorry. 😳

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Did I pull the wrong one? If so, I can put it back. And also if so, what would you rather I delete?

I wanted the Dart one with the gas tank in front of it, the one with the moss on the trunk. The other one, the one with the front view, I wanted deleted. I’ve reposted the one I want.

Edited for clarity. Yeesh I can’t make sense tonight.

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Thanks, Elsinore. I think I specified the wrong one, though. Sorry to be a pain. Should have been more specific probably.

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Can I get my second post deleted? 2011-07-06 10:35:00 PM I’ve changed my mind on it and will be putting another one up.

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Stupid power outage. Had everything ready just about and it got windy enough took out our entire town’s power. Glad they have it back, but I was supposed to start back to work an hour and a half ago!

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Didn’t see fireworks this year (pity because I wanted to go), so we did sparklers at home. Woo…sparklers..

Oh, and a bit of kitchen chemistry. This is cinnamon schnapps, and we roasted a marshmallow in spiced rum after this. Pics of that didn’t come out so well.

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If I could get away with coming down, I would (won’t bore you with the details). You kids go have fun, though!

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Haven’t seen Airplane! yet, or I probably would have gotten the reference. Should I put it on my Netflix queue?

Wait. Do you speak jive?

What’s jive?

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Haven’t seen Airplane! yet, or I probably would have gotten the reference. Should I put it on my Netflix queue?

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Does it matter if we “flip vertical” or “rotate 180” so long as the pic ends up upside-down?

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