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Supermoon Sculpture

Jason Benz — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:09:33 +0000

This is one of six metal fish in Harley Park, Labrador, Queensland, Australia. I chose this spot to photograph last nights supermoon so I could experiment silhouetting the sculptures. I the event there was enough light to illuminate the fish and bring out the rust colours.

Moon Rise

Jason Benz — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:19:35 +0000

I saw this moon rise walking home tonight. Although it was not a Super Moon I thought it would be a good chance to compare my new(2nd hand) 100-400mm lens to my old 28-300mm. Both moon shots are were taken with my 5D mark II and are 1:1 pixel crops so the 400mm shot is a little larger. Can you see any more detail?

300mm 5d Mark II

150mm crop sensor E-510

I finally submitted my Australian citizen application today. I just have the interview and test to do at some point and every box will be ticked.

Super Moon

Jason Benz — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:30:58 +0000

This weekend I photographed the supermoon from Australia with a Canon 5D Mark II and a 300mm lens

The last time I shot the moon was in the UK with my old Olympus E-510 and a 300mm equivalent lens.

In both cases I did not resize or re-sample the image. Instead I cropped out the sky until I was left with an 800 pixel wide image for the blog. The Canon has 21 mega pixels and the Olympus has 10 mega pixels so the result was a larger image this time. I was surprised just how much extra detail was captured when compared to the old shot.

Twelve Mile

Jason Benz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:20:50 +0000

This is Twelve Mile Beach. It is the campsite we stayed at when we first arrived in Hopetoun. Like many places in Western Australia there are no free campsites within a certain distance of the town. Twelve Mile is far enough out of town that you can stay there for free. I had to wait a couple of weeks to get a shot of a full moon to composite in. As it is a local shot I may get it framed for The Deck Gallery but I do not know how well photoshop trickery sells in print. What do you think?

Jet Surfer

Jason Benz — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:07:54 +0000

This jet surfer is a composite of four images. The desert dunes of western Egypt, A kite surfer from Dahab, The moon from an earlier post and a methane engine I found on this site. Unlike the last composite these images did not need as much adjustment as the lighting conditions were similar. The dunes did need their tonal range increasing. This was done by increasing the contrast to 100 and moving up the black point in Camera RAW. To compensate for the black point shift the Exposure also needed to be increased.

Edible Asteroid

Jason Benz — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:39:06 +0000

This image shows what you can do by compositing images in photoshop. I started with a shot of me biting into a ball. This shot of the moon was added on a layer above and a mask was applied to reveal it where necessary. A quick google search for “star field” found the background. Another mask was applied and the composition was complete.

Big Moon

Jason Benz — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:13:41 +0000

The moon is the closest it has been to us for 20 years. 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal apparently. Time to dust off the telephoto lens and try to capture as much detail as possible. Although this image does not have enough quality to be accepted for stock photography it can easily be added to any other photo. This image was taken at 150mm on a half size sensor so that is 300mm in old money. I did not resize/re-sample the image for this post. Instead I cropped out sky until I was left with 800×420 pixels. This avoids any loss of quality. As the original image had such a large area of black sky the cameras exposure could not be trusted as it will always overexpose the moon in an attempt to balance the image. Using manual mode I set the camera to f22 and 1/40sec to ensured the detail on the surface was captured.