Brian J. Noggle offers a country Moon in contrast to my recent city Moon. His is a nice panorama, something I rarely have enough backing-away space to manage. --He points out he was working without a tripod, since moonsets wait for nobody.
I cheat; the snapshot I posted is best of four and was achieved by propping the camera on top of a fence. (There is a little crossover between shooting a gun and a camera, you do get better at staying still -- but you'd have to be shooting blackpowder flintlocks or matchlocks to practice the "hold steady" time it takes for a night shot, even with a modern camera and a full moon! The nice thing about digital cameras is, no film; if it take ten snapshots to get one good one, so what?)
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At least it's 'cheaper' with a digital camera... Taking 36 shots with Kodachrome and 'hoping' to get one good one was costly to put it mildly...
I cheat; the snapshot I posted is best of four...
That's not cheating, that's photography.
What Dave said. In hunting, too, you generally don't put your misses up on the wall for everyone to see. Photography has a slightly different definition of "miss".
Back in the days of film photography, it wasn't just experience, skill, and artistic ability that distinguished professionals from amateurs - it was also the willingness to burn through a whole roll of film in the quest for one perfect shot. For a professional, the cost of the film and developing the pictures was a deductible business expense, but an amateur had to stand the whole cost from a limited budget for luxuries.
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