From your garden/backyard

[Greg Beetham]

Wow! some wonderful macros and close ups, Pat and Omega892.
Greg
Nothing so marvellous from me though, just a freshly risen full moon looking under the trees in the backyard.

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[sury]

Greg,
I love the shot. The silhouette of the structure (of a home?) and the trees make it
very "down to earth". Was that yellowish tint due to haze?

Sury

[Birma]

I like the silhouette Greg, with the moon in the background.

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Sury and Birma, I think from memory the moon was very yellow/golden to the naked eye and big of course as the moon always looks after just rising, I probably should have tried to get it as it looked but that would have meant overexposing the moon and losing the yellow tone and also no detail.
One thing I noticed over the years was an increase of overhead wires, there was only a few on the other side of the street once, now the darn things are on our side as well as an additional lot higher up on the other side, just what you need in a cyclone area.
Greg
Ps I think the building you can see vaguely on the left behind the palm tree is the big Catholic Church down the street maybe a hundred and fifty metres or so.

[Omega892]

Greg,
Was that yellowish tint due to haze?

Sury

The atmosphere tends to reduce the amount of blue light reaching the Earth, the thicker the atmosphere, e.g. when the moon is lower in the sky, then the more red-orange the object. This is also why a low sun appears more red.

Particulates in the atmosphere, e.g. from volcanic activity or wild fires, can also cause a red shift in the image, hence Turner's skies in such as his 'The Fighting Temeraire'.

[sury]

Lionel, Thank you. I guess my comment about haze is related to particulates in atmosphere.

Here are couple from the backyard with 70-400G.

[Birma]

Very nice light and colour in the back yard Sury .

[Greg Beetham]

Nice, Sury you sure have a few Roses.
Greg

[sury]

Thank you, Andy and Greg. Yes, missus is somewhat partial to Roses. We have about 8-10 sprinkled all around the front/back yard.
Here is one from the front.

[david antony]

Extremely nice flower shots Sury, great lighting with nice bokeh.

I like the way the palm is dusting off the moon Greg, quite
different, nice one.

[Greg Beetham]

Lovely yellow Rose Sury, I think yellow is my favourite Rose colour, but then Red is pretty good too and so is white, hmmm it’s hard to decide actually, I’ll have to think about it.
Thanks DA I had a bit of trouble with that moon, it had this amazing yellow orange colour (which I’ve seen before of course) and I thought it would be good to try and ‘get’ that as well as show the trees in some fashion. Easier said than done though, I think you’d need about 15 stops of dr to show the moon unwashed out and the tree silhouettes in the same photo with no noise.
Problem was if you expose for the moon and retain the deep yellow orange ok you can’t see the trees, everything but the moon is pitch black…no trees. (easily visible to the eye though)
Give it a try sometime, see if you can find a way of doing it (maybe the newer cameras with multi exposure dr can do better).
Greg

[Ken M]

[Ken M]

Frank gets his revenge!

[ValeryD]

Finally! We have the flowers in Winnipeg. From my backyard.


DSC09564.jpg by Valery_RW, on Flickr


DSC09557.jpg by Valery_RW, on Flickr

[Birma]

Very nice colours and use of dof Valery - glad your flowers are catching up

Some pretty disturbing pictures there Ken . I don't if I'm more worried about Lightning being in trouble, or a boy in pink shorts My daughter would love a pink lawn though .