The Last Full Moon of 2010 (Photo Blog)

One of the new hobbies I have started this year is photography. Since I still can't afford to buy an entry level DSLR camera, I settled for a digital camera that has at least 3x optical zoom with a high resolution (up to 12 Mega pixels).

While doing different experiments with my digi-cam, my interest in taking night photos without using the flash grew. Of course this means that my subjects would be something that is lighted or the source of light even.

One December night, I stepped out of our front door then I saw the bright full moon glowing. What caught my attention was, though it's been very cloudy for the past few days, there's just enough hole through the clouds to show the moon. The effects of the moon's light on the clouds instantly suggested that this is a moment worth capturing in the camera, so I grabbed my digital camera, not realizing back then that I was about to take pictures of the Last full moon of 2010.



One problem though when setting a camera to night mode, the shutter speed is quite slow, thus the exposure is quite longer. In effect if the camera is not steadied, which is very difficult to do using a camera without an optical viewer, any movement, slight jitter of the hands will affect the picture.

The first two pictures shows what I mean.  Both images are taken without a tripod.. which I don't have as of now.

 I looked for a way to steady the camera. So placed it on the concrete ledge of our front porch then I looked for something that I could point the camera just at the right angle upwards.

 I took several shots, slightly moving the location of the camera. Here, I actually did not notice the power line on the LCD screen of my camera. It appeared to have pierced the ball of light though.

 

Finally I got this shot.

 

Each shot I take with my digital camera, simply fuels my desire to buy a DSLR even the entry level ones.


These photos along my other photos are posted here in  http://www.redgage.com/tekbytes/photos