SUPERMOON tomorrow
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That's just before sunset and dusk. I'm gonna try and be out there for this. Also, this is around the time the 2014 perseid meteor shower is peaking. Peak time this year is Aug 10th - 13th. http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/perseid.html
I also am seeing where they are forecasting some thunderstorms for around the Portland area after 100 degree days on Monday and Tuesday. May be a pretty good week for outdoor photographers!
Chad
I have to admit I've gotten kind of burned out on the whole "super moon" thing. Yes, it IS larger, by a fairly decent amount.
However, it's not as huge as you'd think it is with all the hype. Also, many more factors will have a far more significant effect on how it looks.
1) Photograph it at or near the horizon. It will look huge, supermoon or not. This is a very persistent, if somewhat inexplicable, phenomenon. I've seen it in person, it's quite compelling even to the naked eye.
2) The size of your lens (obviously) has a far greater effect than any change in the moon's size. Shooting with a 400 mm lens? Well, of course your photo will look bigger than if you use a 200 mm.
3) If there is nothing in the frame but the moon, there is no frame of reference, and the moon's apparently large size will not show up in your photo.
It would certainly be interesting if someone posted photos of a different one.
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photographmemories
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That's just before sunset and dusk. I'm gonna try and be out there for this. Also, this is around the time the 2014 perseid meteor shower is peaking. Peak time this year is Aug 10th - 13th. http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/perseid.html
I also am seeing where they are forecasting some thunderstorms for around the Portland area after 100 degree days on Monday and Tuesday. May be a pretty good week for outdoor photographers!
Chad
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Great shot, Joe. Moonrise over the Edmonds marsh was less dramatic.
Full color.
Monochrome + blue tone, my favorite method of taking moon shots.
Full color.
Monochrome + blue tone, my favorite method of taking moon shots.
I have to admit I've gotten kind of burned out on the whole "super moon" thing. Yes, it IS larger, by a fairly decent amount.
However, it's not as huge as you'd think it is with all the hype. Also, many more factors will have a far more significant effect on how it looks.
1) Photograph it at or near the horizon. It will look huge, supermoon or not. This is a very persistent, if somewhat inexplicable, phenomenon. I've seen it in person, it's quite compelling even to the naked eye.
2) The size of your lens (obviously) has a far greater effect than any change in the moon's size. Shooting with a 400 mm lens? Well, of course your photo will look bigger than if you use a 200 mm.
3) If there is nothing in the frame but the moon, there is no frame of reference, and the moon's apparently large size will not show up in your photo.
Here's how to get a "Super Moon" photo, using any full moon.
Get a BIG lens, the bigger the better.
Go as far away from your foreground subject as you reasonably can, in this case Steve is something like 7 miles away.
Get out the tripod and shoot away!
http://www.pnwphotos.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/5/title/moon-rise-over-seattle/cat/526
Get a BIG lens, the bigger the better.
Go as far away from your foreground subject as you reasonably can, in this case Steve is something like 7 miles away.
Get out the tripod and shoot away!
http://www.pnwphotos.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/5/title/moon-rise-over-seattle/cat/526
Terry O
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So here's my two cents worth.....unfortunately I wasn't in a position to get the moon coming up over the Cascades. Best I could do was getting tall firs in the foreground, but even at f22, there's no way
they could be in focus. And you are certainly right, Bob - the 500mm f4L + 1.4x (700) resulted in almost a full frame moon. I cropped these shots just for composition purposes. BTW, I bumped the contrast way up; ISO 200; Exp. comp +3. Could have been any full moon...
Fun to shoot, anyway.
Same shot full frame
Same shot full frame
they could be in focus. And you are certainly right, Bob - the 500mm f4L + 1.4x (700) resulted in almost a full frame moon. I cropped these shots just for composition purposes. BTW, I bumped the contrast way up; ISO 200; Exp. comp +3. Could have been any full moon...
Fun to shoot, anyway.
Same shot full frame
Same shot full frame
photographmemories
New Member
Nice work out there last night! Tonight's moon rise might be just as impressive, I have to look at the moonrise time for tonight. What made last night's moon really spectacular was the timing of it all, closest proximity, sunset/ dusk, and moonrise times pretty much all hit at around the same time. I still have to upload my images from my camera. With the smoke from the wildfires, the moon appeared to have a brilliant orange hue here in northern Oregon during the early part of moonrise.
Chad
Chad
Great shots, everyone.
No moon shots tonight as a thunderstorm is passing through the Puget Sound region. Today seemed more like the Midwest: warm and humid all day followed by a thunderstorm at night. As dry as it has been for the past two months, I hope the lightning does not start any more wildfires.
Tonight is like the Midwest in another way: it is staying humid and not cooling off.
Tonight is like the Midwest in another way: it is staying humid and not cooling off.
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Joemeche
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Well, one thing about it, Rocky; we all seem to be looking at the same moon
It would certainly be interesting if someone posted photos of a different one.
photographmemories
New Member
This is what it looked like by the time it reached my neighborhood, just before 9pm, Sunday.
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