[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Well, Humayun did it again this afternoon. He drove up from Canberra (already after dark) and as soon as he landed at my place we headed off for an additional 90km run to our favourite beach haunt up the coast for some night shots under an 89.3% moon.

Here are a couple from this evening. It's difficult to obtain accurate focus given that you're in relative darkness, but I think these turned out OK. It's amazing how the 5D-II behaves at ISO400 at f/13. Not too noisy in the RAWs, with only a smattering of hot pixels to fix. The camera turns night into day.

It's surreal light under a moon at the beach...

Photos 1 & 2)

Camera Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Firmware Firmware Version 2.0.8
Shooting Date/Time 05/14/11 22:37:25
Shooting Mode Bulb
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 902
Av( Aperture Value ) 13.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 400
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Focal Length 24.0mm

Basic white point adjustment, sharpening and horizon rotation in Canon DPP - straight to you screen.

Photo 3: This was taken at 12:17am - yes - midnight. Looks like daytime and that wows me a little.

File Name IMG_2699.CR2
Camera Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Firmware Firmware Version 2.0.8
Shooting Date/Time 05/15/11 00:17:17
Shooting Mode Bulb
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 240
Av( Aperture Value ) 11.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 2500
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Focal Length 60.0mm

Photo 4) Staring into Sagittarius and Scorpius

Camera Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Firmware Firmware Version 2.0.8
Shooting Date/Time 05/14/11 23:24:30
Shooting Mode Manual Exposure
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 30
Av( Aperture Value ) 4.5
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 640
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Focal Length 40.0mm