1921 - Fingernail Moon

2012-01-21

I’ve been in Carinthia one day earlier today, because I had to bring the car to a car repair shop.

The appointment was for 8:00, thus I started out early and also made some images. The Image of the Day with its perfect alignment of moon and the mountain Mittagskogel was one of them.

I used ISO 640 and by accident I kept ISO at that for the whole day. That’s the kind of stupidity that you end up with when a camera does not have reasonably intelligent auto ISO 🙂

Oh, by the way, you may remember that I wished Nikon would implement auto ISO in a way that takes focal length into account. Good news: wish granted. Bad news: so far only on the D4 😄

The Song of the Day is “Fingernail Moon” from Annie Lennox’ 2007 album “Songs Of Mass Destruction”. Hear it on YouTube.

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Cedric Canard   (2012-01-21)

Beautiful photos. And yes I agree with you about auto ISO in cameras today. Not as intelligent as it could be and that's quite surprising really.

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Juha Haataja   (2012-01-21)

The fingernail moon really nails it. Simple, effective.

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Paul   (2012-01-21)

A beautiful shot, Andreas. I'm not a fan of auto ISO, so it doesn't bother me. 😄

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flo (tonebytone)   (2012-01-22)

Instead of auto ISO, I'd rather the camera ring a bell to remind me to check my ISO - among other settings, of course, like white balance, lol. Love that sliver of moon above the mountain.

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