G'day Patrice, It's sure is something to see. It's still visible here though it's not as spectacular as last week.
On 1/24/07, Patrice LACOUTURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This comet is something! > > Too bad I was too busy to do anything about it, even not seeing it > with my eyes :-(. > > Now it's your turn southerners, and it seems even more gorgeous there... > > BTW, I *could* spot the moon and Venus on this one :-). :-) You did well. > Unfortunately, the distance between the comet and the moon reduces the > impact of the image, but there isn't much one can do about it (I don't > want to hear the word "Photoshop" in this context, you've all been > warned! :-) ). It was purely a record shot, to give the size of the comment some sense of scale. > The other one is nice, but definitely lacks a foreground (as a > background is out of the question ;-) ). Yep. Next major feature...Africa :-) > That was the tricky part for me: finding a good landscape, where I > could place something interesting as close to the moon as possible, > and that had to be near the horizon and rather far so I could use a > telephoto lens to "enlarge" the moon... This is always a challenge. For me it's sunsets. Trying to find something other than the Indian Ocean to put between the sun & the camera is an interesting challenge :-) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
