Yesterday evening presented me with a wonderful chance to photograph Venus and Jupiter as they both slowly made their way towards the western horizon. The shot below was a 1/3 second exposure taken using a 70mm focal length at ISO 100 with an f/stop of 5.6. I adjusted the white balance to shaded and set the quality mode to RAW. The image was then post processed by adjusting the white balance and applying a soft focus effect in Photoshop.
Once I had taken a good number of exposures through the a200, I thought it would be interesting to sketch the two planets through the 25×100 Strathspey binoculars. My intention here was to combine the two sketches into one final wide field image just as you can see below. The 25×100s don’t offer the best observational capabilities when viewing planets, but the final sketch offers a little more depth than the actual photograph above. I hope you enjoy both.
