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Full Moon


Full Moon
Photo Information
Copyright: Joshua Lewis (JoshLewis) (45)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-07-29
Categories: Nature
Exposure: f/3.7, 1/30 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Different faces of the Moon [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-03-25 16:58
Viewed: 653
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a photo of the Full Moon taken from Florida. To take this photo, I had to go through a series of ways to figure out how to take a photo of the moon at night. Back when I took this photo, I did not know much about exposure, and did not know how to use daster exposures. When ever I would take a photo of the moon at night, it would often times look like the sun at night. I had to figure, how could I some how allow less light in the camera? An idea stuck me, what If I use the flash to reduce the light intake, and cover the flash, and even though It darkened the photo, it would still be too bright. After that, I saw a puddle on the ground after a thunder storm which gave me an idea! I remember somewere hearing that reflections give off less light. If I took a photo of the moon with the flash and covered it to trick the camera while looking at a reflection, this would certainly make the photo dark enough. Success was on my side, it worked out quite well. But that was'nt all, I would have to keep the camera perfectly still so that the photo does'nt blur, one slight movement would make this photo blurry, and because I did'nt at the time and still don't own a tripod, It made things very difficult. I used a garbage can as a tripod and tried to position it just right, after several tries, I got lucky! My camera does'nt have super zoom which is why this photo is a little pixelated because in those days, I used X4 D-Zoom which was about 76.5 zoom. This was the most difficult and complicated photo I have ever taken! In the end I got what I wanted.

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To astrono: Thanks!JoshLewis 1 03-29 22:58
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I like the pragmatic approach you've used to take this shot - good photography is not about what kit you ue but how you use it, and here you've got a good picture out of using your head. Great stuff!
Thanks for sharing
Mark

bonjour Joshua
encore bravo la premiere peut etre ?
la prochaine sera nette
bonne journee
michel

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