As I was nearing our house, after an almost two hour drive home from my teaching job at the university last Tuesday, I saw the near full moon rising over the hills near our house. I dropped my things in the house, put the long lens on the camera and went out and shot a few quick hand-held shots as the moon was rising above the trees in the front yard of the house across the street from us. It was a bit of a challenge hand-holding at the full reach of the Canon EF 70-300 (FF lens) on my Canon EOS 90D crop sensor DSLR. The photos looked OK on the screen on the camera, but I decided to put it on the tripod and try a few more. Here are the two best photos. As I was in a hurry and figured I'd get the full moon on Friday, I just shot in Program (auto) mode at ISO 400 and spot metering. Alas, Friday was almost full overcast, so these are what I got.
The first photo was taken at 6:54PM at 300mm, f7.1, 1/400 second; the second photo was taken at 7:08PM at 262mm at f5.6, 1/160 second. Both are heavily cropped down to 17.5% of the original for the first and 13% for the second photo. They are processed in Lightroom and both used the LR AI noise reduction. I decided to leave part of the trees in the first photo, as the moon was barely above them as it was rising.
These are fantastic Dennis!
Fine representations of the moon, Dennis. Kudos.
Thanks for your comment bcheary, I'm glad you liked them.
srfmhg wrote:
These are fantastic Dennis!
Thank you very much Mark, I really apreciate it.
pixelmaven wrote:
Fine representations of the moon, Dennis. Kudos.
Thanks for the Kudos Laura!
Thanks! I appreciate your comment.
Excellent captures. The craters on the very edge of the moon. Very nice!
MT native wrote:
Excellent captures. The craters on the very edge of the moon. Very nice!
From one Dennis to another: Thanks!
rdemarco52 wrote:
Very nice.
Thank you rdemarco52, I'm glad you liked it.
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