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2020 - August - The Moon
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Rules that are always applicable are as follows:
- One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest.
- Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you.
- All entries should include a line of text with the location, subject, and date (specificity is up to you).
- Refrain from posting sensitive/debatable content
- Only upvotes count towards winning.
Rules for August are as follows:
- The Moon - Picture must include the moon.
- The contest will last the whole month of August and to be clear, we use UTC, just like the site itself.
- There is no constraint on when the photo must have been taken.
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Obligatory shot of just the moon
Yup, it's the moon. I included this to document the exposure. Getting the moon right is tricky, since it's a small but bright object in the middle of a dark background. Anything with auto-exposure is going to mess this up, unless you have a very long lens so that the moon fills much of the frame.
This picture was one of a series of exposure tests. The brightest parts of the moon were near, but not past, the top end of the sensor range. The parameters were:
ISO 200, f/8.0, 1/125 second
5 Mar 2010 at 19:24, Groton Massachusetts, 300 mm lens, full frame (36 x 24 mm) sensor, cropped result.
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