For this, you will need a pair of binoculars. Nothing too fancy or expensive, but the bigger the better. First, flip the binoculars around so that the larger lenses are towards you. Then position your camera so that the camera lens is half-on one lens of the binoculars, and half-off. A visual illustration follows:
(I spare no expense on illustrations. Or is it 'spend no expense'?)
You might have to move the binoculars around until you can see an image through them.
It should look something like this:
The ship in the bottom-left corner is seen through the binocular lens. The ship in the top-right corner is the same ship, but seen by the naked eye. The black part of the picture is the body of the binoculars.
If you adjust the settings on your camera, you might be able to get rid of that black area almost entirely. I find that using the automatic setting (where the camera auto-focuses and adjusts lighting itself) helps with this. With some fiddling, you can get something like this:
It looks like a Photoshop composite, but this is the image as it was captured by the camera. Pretty neat, huh? I thought so.
Give it a try.
