UPDATED 3/22: Holy moly that's a lot of pictures!
Will Femia
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Post 'em if you got 'em.
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Buzzfeed did a nice round-up and of course Flickr is brimming with them.
Having taken a lot of terrible white circle moon photos in the past, I took the time this weekend to research how to shoot the moon. It turns out, the most common mistake is to assume that because you're in the dark, you need a lot of light sensativity. It's not actually a night shot. I saw recommendations of f11 and shutter speeds of 1/125 with ISO 100. Given those settings, it's odd that a tripod is also recommended. My photo (the top one) was taken free-hand.
The need for a tripod may come when you use the right kind of lens. The recommendations I read were for 300mm or more. Sadly, I don't own one of those so the best I could do was a 50mm. So I got some crater detail, but it could never be more than a small dot. Andy shot his on a tripod with a Canon G12 with a pretty impressive result. (Next full moon, super or otherwise, I'm going to rent a telephoto lens for the day and see if I can get something more compelling. Lens rentals are actually remarkably cheap. I can't say enough good things about spending $30 or so to experiment with a lens that costs a couple thousand dollars.)
What I do know about the big telephoto lenses is that if you use a high f stop number, you flatten the depth of field. So if you're including a distant building in your shot, both the building and the moon appear in focus and the moon looks that much closer. I think at that point you'd need the stability of a tripod.
The other real key (that I also failed to do) is to shoot at moonrise. That way you get the moon close to the horizon with some Earth-bound context and you have enough sunset light still hanging around to light the scene and give you some nice sky color.
Ok, lessons taken. I'll meet you back here next month to try again.
Submitted by Robert Jay Russell / UGC
PERIGEE MOON, almost midnight…
...as the moon climbs higher in the sky, at an angle nearly overhead (75-degrees above the horizon), there is much less atmosphere for its light to traverse. Therefore, it is less distorted and its features more resolved. Still, the atmosphere it does cross is like a pot of water stirred and mixed by turbid, roiling, temperature differences.
Submitted by Robert Jay Russell / UGC
PERIGEE MOON, March 19th, 2011…
...dances low on the horizon, peering through dense, very cold air near the ground. It was as distorted and orange as a pumpkin, illuminated by a the setting sun.
Submitted by Ruth Sternglantz / UGC
Supermoon through skeletonic trees...
Submitted by Jack Grover / UGC
Super perigee moon on 19 March 2011 as seen from Slatington, PA - USA
Submitted by Christopher Howard / UGC
Super Moon
Submitted by Jennifer Gilson / UGC
The Super Moon shot 3/21/11 from Liberty State Park, NJ
Submitted by Geri Miller / UGC
Super Moon on a foggy night in Milwaukee, WI
Submitted by Lynne Hammonds / UGC
Super moon taken in the high desert of Calif
Submitted by Suwin Chan / UGC
Full Moon with Clouds, .3 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400
Submitted by Suwin Chan / UGC
Full Moon with Clouds, .3 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400
Submitted by Steve Ramirez / UGC
Moon over Gilbert, AZ
Submitted by Steve Ramirez / UGC
Moon over Gilbert, AZ
Submitted by Cynthia Watkins / UGC
Taken with a Nikon CoolPix 8700
Submitted by Miriam Cintron / UGC
Between the Moon and New York City 3
Submitted by Miriam Cintron / UGC
Between the Moon and New York City 2
Submitted by Darrin Nupuf / UGC
Screen grab from a time-lapse shot of this weekends Super moon!! 3-19-11
Submitted by Laurel Zanardelli
"super" moon in Monroe County, MI
the halo was sooo cool
Submitted by Jim Howland
Supermoon, one night early; the weather was supposed to be cloudy in Georgia on Saturday, so I took my best shot Friday night.
Submitted by m edmund Howse
little zoom
Submitted by m edmund Howse
austin moon
Submitted by Kevin Fox
Moon A-Risin'...Part 2
Not above the treeline yet, I was able to catch this shot. The surround area around the moon was too dark for this shot to be seen.
Submitted by Kevin Fox
Moon A-Risin'
Location: RT81 and Bartel Road, in Brewerton, NY
Submitted by Kevin Fox
The Moon...Exposed!!!
Extended exposure shot taken on Oneida Lake, in Brewerton, NY.
Submitted by Michal Story
d.u.p.e.r
Submitted by Michal Story / UGC
s.u.p.e.r
Submitted by Michal Story
m.o.o.n.
Submitted by Sarah Weston
Super Moon in Hudson Heights
Submitted by Lisa Knappe
Super SCARY moon over DC!
Submitted by Hemant Kulkarni
Taken at about 35 degrees.
Submitted by Michele McCormick / UGC
SuperMoon
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I love the DC Supermoon!
i posted mine on flickr -- three shots, of varying distances:
i love shooting the moon:
It was too cloudy here to get what I would consider a good shot so here's a link to my "Moon Shot" from last year at the same time:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=683071793&aid=6801#!/photo.php?fbid=384574401793&set=a.5500481793.6801.683071793&theater
It was just published in our local paper. Nice shots from some of you others that posted.
I didn't take still photos, but I was able to record it on video; added some Chopin music. This view is from a 10 story roof in Mexico City.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1768435323761
Or here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXgIa2MUOk
i hope everyone can see the woman in the moon in these phots!
hey, where are my links? anyway, i'll try again.
three shots of the supermoon, in greece:
www.flickr.com/photos/toomanytribbles/5542891155
and my moon set, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/toomanytribbles/sets/72157607937068472/
I don't know why some of the links are disappearing. The "open-mic" tag is supposed to allow links in comments. Thanks for trying again. It's just a spam blocking mechanism so it's easily defeated by leaving off the http://
Didn't have my paltry camera out but saw 2 spectacular displays from Ft. Lauderdale in clear skies: The first at midnight on Friday when the halo/aura was multicolored, almost rainbow-like; the second the next night when the halo was only blue rimmed by a bit of purple.
I am an avid photographer but didnt take any of the Super Moon. Go figure ? Oh, thats right too many clouds in the Southern San Joaquin! But I have really enjoyed checking these out and saw some very awesome shots~~~Thanks Rachel for posting these. Beautiful pics in a world with a lot of strife right now. Nice to remind us that life and nature moves on...
Didn't get the moon but got this great shot of Rachel when i paused by DVR!
Here are mine, taken from the lot #1 boardwalk at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island in Newbury, MA. http: //bit.ly/ejIlgP
As a recent user, this is not letting me post the link to my Picasa album or upload the photos. I put some spaces in the link, hoping it will be posted.
Great photos! :)
Thanks for the pictures...too cloudy to see the moon in Chicago.
Incredible Pictures: I envy the many photographers who are so skilled at what they do.
I did not take a picture of the super moon due to the sky not being clear. I have some pictures I took on a clear night. They are on
chaindropzrandomblog.blogspot.com/
December 13 2008
febuary 14, 2008
June, 2007
I did not take a picture of the super moon because it was not clear. I did take some telephoto pictures on the following dades.
Dec 13 2008
Thursday Feb. 14 2008
Tuesday June 2009
chaindropz.blogspot.com
I also have a picture of an object that I thought was a moon but I did not remember a moon at the time I took the picture. My first clue was the moon was in front of a cloud. This happened to me about 6 years ago and I think it is the same thing because of an outer rim on both objects. Both sets of pictures were taken in Fairhope Alabama between 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM almsos 6 years apart. I have posted the details of the pictures recorded by the seperate cameras. A reflection off my lens may explain what happen. It has only happen to me twice and I take thousands of pictures.
It will be a good night,i have no super camera,so i will be out side with Saly,my dog. we'll enjoy and dance,and in between take a picture with my old crapy camera ;),no tripod or lenses in hand.