Back in the day of film photography, getting a good shot of the moon seemed next to impossible.
Even with some serious "bracketing of exposures" it was a hit or miss kind of thing. The exposures always seemed to bright, to dark, or too blurry. Plus I never had a really long telephoto lens, so the moon always seemed like a little dot in the sky.
After some practice (say...several rolls of film and the subsequent developing fees) I started to get an idea of where to start with the camera settings, but I never really got a good shot of the moon.
Enter digital photography:
Compose. Focus. Shoot. Immediately check the display to see what ya got.
*Delete*
Try again.
Have I mentioned how much I love digital cameras?
Fantastamical!
I still haven't got any great shots of the moon.
However, I did manage to get one clear, well exposed shot of the moon (still a small dot in the sky-yeah, those telephoto lenses are expensive). The shot itself was boring, so I cut out the moon and pasted it onto what was another rather boring-by-itself photo.
Have I mentioned how much I love my photo manipulation software?
Fantastamical!
So, without further ado, here is one shot of the boring moon and another shot from the North Carolina Aquarium:
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| Mr. Crockagator on a moonlight swim |
This was written for the Facebook Blogging For Fun Group.
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| "Moon shots" |
This group makes me realize I really need to figure out a way to organize and search my 1 terabyte collection of photos! (okay, and get the motivation to actually do it!)
