Generally, not right at moonrise with the moon low over the horizon. You want to have it rising over something and that would cast a shadow into the foreground. HDRI would be the only way to do it because the moon is so bright while anything on Earth it would illuminate would be so dim. Plus the moonlight doesn't give you the colors that the setting sun does. Shooting just before the full moon is the way to do it. This was shot under a full moon. <http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/ThereAndBack/MoabTrip/pages/ZionAtMidnight.html > That was a 40 second exposure. You can see the star trails, tiny but visible. The moon would be obviously elongated and totally burned out.
This was taken the day before full moon and that was one day too late because there is a hill behind this location so the canyon was in deep shadow by the time the moon rose even though the sun had not set yet. <http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/GrandCanyon/Pages/WhitmoreMoonrise.html > You can see how burned out the moon is. This was taken the day before full moon. <http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/Zion/Pages/WestTempleSunset.html > Plenty of foreground light, the moon isn't blown out, lots of color. I noticed tonight that the moon is pretty far north in the sky. I'm not sure where I would shoot from to get the nice foreground/horizon to have the moon rise above. Somewhere up on Grafton Mesa would probably be the place. <http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/Zion/Pages/GraftonMesaSunset.html > I haven't scouted a location though so even if I had a vehicle to get me there I'm not sure where I would go. These things take either planning or an incredible amount of luck. That's what happened on the West Temple Sunset shot - we were there two days before, completely unaware of the impending full moon and saw it rise while shooting sunset pictures but it was too early. Came back the next night and it was too cloudy to let the moon get through properly. Went back again the following night and just barely got there in time. I literally jumped out of the truck right in front of that water catch basin and took one picture then the sun set and I lost the light. Got back in the car and went home. Wasn't there for 5 minutes. :) -- Brian On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Michael Luscombe wrote: > There's no way to capture the moon-lit foreground? HDRI blending? > > Michael > > On 12-Dec-08, at 1:32 AM, Brian Lawson wrote: > >> Sit in my back yard drinking beer with a buddy as it rises. ;) I >> didn't know that it was at perigee or I would have made other plans >> to find some place to photograph it tonight. You want to photograph >> "full" moons one or two days before the actual full moon rise so >> there is still some sunlight to illuminate your foreground. On the >> actual full moon day the sun sets just before the moon rises and >> there isn't enough light to capture both foreground and the moonrise. >> -- >> Brian >> >> On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:12 PM, John D wrote: >>> Here's an interesting note: Tomorrow night the full moon will be >>> the largest it ever gets. The moon's average distance from the >>> Earth is 238,855 miles, but it's now only 221,560 away. Along with >>> this, we have exceptionally high tides. >>> >>> I wonder if Brian has any plans for it? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
