OFFICIAL THREAD about "NOTHING"

[George Cumby]

I lost someone to cancer yesterday. Please say a prayer, hoist a drink, dance a jig or whatever suits your fancy... please do so in the name of "Gayle"...

Condolences.

[easy cheesy]

Condolences.

Thank you very much George.

[MJZiggy]

Thank you very much George.

Call me slow, but she and I are a half a bottle down. She's not much help...

[MJZiggy]

Anything in here help?

http://mansurovs.com/how-to-photograph-moon

5) How to photograph just the moon
To photograph just the moon by itself, without any objects in the foreground, you will need a long telephoto lens like explained above to magnify the moon and try to fill as much of the frame as possible. Even with a good telephoto lens setup though, you will most likely be cropping the final image, simply because only a telescope would be able to provide enough magnification to fill the entire frame. With your telephoto lens mounted in your camera, secure it on a tripod and point at the moon. Make sure that your tripod is good and stable enough to accommodate and hold your lens and your camera. When it comes to shutter speed, aperture and ISO, here is what I recommend for general use:
Camera Mode: Set your camera mode to full Manual Mode.
ISO: Set your ISO to 100 if you have a Canon DSLR and to 200 if you have a Nikon DSLR (basically, whatever base ISO you have in your camera). For most other brands, the base ISO is also 100. If you have a point and shoot camera, see if you can find a menu setting to set your ISO to 100. Make sure “Auto ISO” is turned Off.
Aperture: Set your aperture to f/11.
Shutter Speed: Set your shutter speed to 1/125 on cameras with base ISO 100, and to 1/250 on Nikon DSLRs with base ISO 200.
Lens Focus: Set your lens to manual focus (either through a switch on the lens or on the camera) and set your focus to infinity. Be careful while setting the focus to infinity, as some lenses allow focusing beyond infinity. On more advanced DSLRs such as Nikon D300, there is a handy feature called “live-view with contrast detect”, which can accurately acquire focus on distant objects. I have used it many times for my moon photography and it works great! If you do not have such a feature in your camera, then try setting your lens to the center of the infinity sign, then take a picture and see if it came out sharp by zooming in the rear LCD of the camera.

Thank you Joe, there is stuff in there that helped. I figured out the ISO, though I can't figure out why. I did the manual focus, but need to learn about the infinity setting.... I still haven't gotten a chance to look at the images on a larger screen...

[Freak Out]

Happy 46th Birthday Star Trek!

https://www.google.com/

[mraynrand]

I AM KIROK!!!!

[Deputy Nutz]

Remember when Rastak had his own section of the forum???

remember when I had my own article? Man I am awesome.

[Iron Mike]

remember when I had my own article? Man I am awesome.

You need to change from Wolf Pack Rat back to Rat Guru....

[MJZiggy]

This dog makes a really good armrest, actually...

[SkinBasket]

[swede]

When my daughters were in the 3-8 year old range we had a little dog that lived to find and eat Crayola crayons, and he got lucky a lot. One of the consequences of this was that picking up his shi tzu was a little like collecting performance art, a remarkable blend of form and color.

My wife picked up a bag of green and gold corn chips for the Packer game. They were very good, though we did laugh about the unusually vivid color of the green chips.

Unbeknownst to me, this innocent uptake of industrial-grade green food coloring gave me a kind of useless super power, as I discovered yesterday at about 4 pm.

The lowest of the shades below is the color. You are probably familiar with the form.

Somewhere in doggy heaven a small dog is either proud of me or a little jealous.

[Freak Out]

WoW has turned into Kung Fu Panda....shocker.

[Freak Out]

When my daughters were in the 3-8 year old range we had a little dog that lived to find and eat Crayola crayons, and he got lucky a lot. One of the consequences of this was that picking up his shi tzu was a little like collecting performance art, a remarkable blend of form and color.

My wife picked up a bag of green and gold corn chips for the Packer game. They were very good, though we did laugh about the unusually vivid color of the green chips.

Unbeknownst to me, this innocent uptake of industrial-grade green food coloring gave me a kind of useless super power, as I discovered yesterday at about 4 pm.

The lowest of the shades below is the color. You are probably familiar with the form.

Somewhere in doggy heaven a small dog is either proud of me or a little jealous.

That is a very nice shade of green you have there Mr. Swede.

[MadtownPacker]

WoW has turned into Kung Fu Panda....shocker.

I saw that commercial. I also thought it was a badass version of KungFu Panda.

Youre a fucking panocha.

[easy cheesy]

Well..........my step mom's dead..... so here we go..........