What an awsome light show last night in Norther Georgia. This is a 8 frame stack of the bolts of lightning over Lookout Mountain in North West Georgia and southern Tennessee. Shot with a Sony A7r lens Canon 18-55mm at 18mm and f3.5.

The Battle of Summer vs Winter, Summers last stand

A composition

A short Time lapse I did of a field of fireflies

Getting this shot looked easy boy was I wrong. After a hour of finding my composition of where the Moon would rise and patiently waiting. I soon realized I was off and had to move and recompose in a minute. The compass on my phone was off by a few degrees, so what's a degree or 2 became miles in my line of sight on the horizon. After some running and jumping the out come was great.

I had set my Sony A7r facing east with the Moon rise in the right third of my screen to avoid a tree. After I noticed the Moon starting to rise it was in the left third of my screen. I repositioned further to my left to clear the tree and move the Moon to the left third. 

Camera: Sony A7r

Lens: Canon 100-300mm f/4 EX IF HSM with a Neewer EF-E mount adapter and a Kenco 2x teleconverter

Settings: iso 3600 exposure 3 seconds f4

Gear Talk

Commlite Auto-Focus Mount Adapter EF-NEX for Canon EF to Sony NEX
I have been using this adapter for a month now and all I can say "Its worth the price".

Even though the auto focus is a little slow, the advantage is it can electronically control aperture on fully automatic lenses. I am a Canon convert and have a ton of EF mount lenses that I can now use on my Sony mirror-less cameras. In the past I could only adapt a few lenses to my Canon EF mount systems and with the adapters available for the Canons they had and extra piece of glass   I have used the Commlite on my Sony A7R, A6000, A5000 and NEX-5n and the only lens  that I have that fails to auto focus is my Sigma 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM. For the cost its a great alternative to buying more glass. There is mutable adapters for the Sony E mount system, Minolta, Pentax, Nikon, and even Leica lenses. If you are on a E mount system check into the Pentax K mount and the Minolta MD mount adapters. These mount lenses can be picked up for little money on Ebay and KEH. If you are into expanding your lens collection this is the way to go.

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