Hi Paul, thanks for dropping in. Regards shooting the moon: it's the settings. If the moon is coming out a white blur, your shutter speed is too long. The beauty of digital is that you can experiement to your heart's content - keep reducing the amount of time the shutter is open until you get detail showing in your shot.

If you look at the exif data you can see what setting I used on each shot. For this shot they were:

F-Number: F/11
Exposure Time: 0.05 sec. 1/20
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
Exposure Program: Manual
ISO Speed: 80

The advantage of shooting the moon is that you have plenty of time to make your shots because it's not going anywhere. Another tip I found is to fire the flash sometimes, the CCD picks it up somehow and it can give a bit of glow to the shot you don't get without it.

I also always use a tripod & cable release for low light photography.

Gidday paul,

Re Canola Crop:

This is an oil seed crop called Canola and that's the colour it grows (it used to be called Rape seed). It was washed out down the headlands during a big storm which was a real bummer because it would have made a much better photo with a full paddock.

I have a whole album of canols crop shots

http://public.fotki.com/Pedro23/on_the_road_sales_rep/agricultural-1/canola_crop_shots/

Gidday Paul,

I love your winter wonderland photos.

Cheers

Peter

Hi Paul,

I enjoyed a browse through your pics mate.

Greetings from Australia.

Peter