{"id":1844,"date":"2009-03-05T19:20:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/03\/shooting-for-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T19:20:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:20:19","slug":"shooting-for-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Shooting for the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to have a go at photographing the moon, having noticed it being bright and clear in the sky on my walk home. This is the best I could do leaning out of my window with 400mm lens. I&#39;m pretty sure that the blur that remains is due to the atmosphere&#0160;in-between as I shooting at f6.3, 1\/400s with VR. That or just soft focus! Certainly the lens will focus past infinity and turn the moon into a complete blur so you do need to focus carefully.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>It&#39;s a 100% crop (at least it is if you click for the fullsize version) so that&#39;s as much as my 12.3MP D300 can do in terms of resolution. It&#39;s still tiny in the frame even with 400mm lens on a DX sensor!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401127937e97528a4\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Moon\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e0158883401127937e97528a4 \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401127937e97528a4-550wi\" style=\"width: 550px; \" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to have a go at photographing the moon, having noticed it being bright and clear in the sky on my walk home. This is the best I could do leaning out of my window with 400mm lens. I&#39;m pretty sure that the blur that remains is due to the atmosphere&#0160;in-between as I shooting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}