The above multiple exposure was taken with my 70-300mm zoom lens with each exposure of the moon progressively zooming in. Each shot was recomposed to place the “three moons” in the arrangement seen. I actually took this multiple exposure on my new D80…yes, I finally caved and bought a digital SLR. I finally justified buying it after months of pondering over all of the money that I was sinking into buying and processing film. Not to mention, I am always unpleased with the results of scanning film slides into digital format for my website. The resolution of the D80 is very impressive, but I’m sure a purist side in me will still want to compare the results to each other.
I also recently snapped this 30 second exposure at the airport with the new D80. It was pretty spontaneous, but I saw the approaching 747, and thought, “hey that might look pretty cool”. That, and the fact that now it didn’t cost me any film, I was able to burn up as many pictures as I wanted. I exposed the camera sensor as the jetliner came in for an approach (nearly overhead of me). The lights from the plane are the streaks that you see across the upper right of the image.
