July 2021 Buck Moon and camera

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While the official July 2021 Full "Buck" Moon was last night, I had clouds. Lucky for me, it was still almost full tonight. traciyork@traciyork thanks for the good luck, it worked, I woke up at 3:30am, (not intended) looked out window, decided to take my shots, and then it went behind clouds 30 min later.

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I've been aching to get the new camera out again for another moon shot, and tonight was my night.

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This is a tighter crop in Photoshop, same picture as the first and third.

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This was the original uncropped shot, the other two were Light crop and Heavy crop. That's one of the things I love about this camera, the original Raw file was 60MB, which allows me to do a pretty heavy crop without losing detail and still having a quality image.

For you other photo geeks out there, here is my setup for this shot.
This was at F14 1/60 iso125 and a -3step adjustment to keep the bright spots from blowing out the detail.
Sony A7R4, with 200-600mm lens + 2x TeleConverter, giving an effective 1200mm lens. Vantage tripod with swivel ball head (love that swivel ball and quick trigger to adjust). I also have a micro-adjust on the top it allows me to make micro-adjustments left-right and up-down that really helps center shots. galenkp@galenkp I also use this at the range on my spotting scopes, it's awesome for bringing targets into view.

I learned a bit from my last shooting, and this one went a little more smooth. I used manual focus this time instead of auto, and also shot off a tripod with a remote trigger mechanism.
Here's what the setup looks like:

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A little closer view:
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Here's the remote, it's pretty handy. It has a remote shutter button, a 2 second timer button, and can even work the video (I haven't tried that yet).
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And here's the top of the camera, with the stop adjustment knob on the far right. It's very handy, I often shoot my regular shots at -1 or -2 stops. This helps keep the meter from blowing out highlights, and then I can always easily adjust to lighten things up a bit in PS if needed.

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