Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

We aren't here to learn from each other! We are here to humiliate and insult each other!

Maybe some music will help...

Check out how big the moon appears to be in this video:

https://youtu.be/srMkjFwsmeM

Then there is this one:

Somewhere there's music
How faint the tune
Somewhere there's heaven
How high the moon
There is no love
When love is far away too
Till it comes true
That you love me as I love you

How high the moon
Does it touch the stars
How high the moon
Does it reach up to Mars
Though the words may be wrong
To this song
We're asking how high, high, high
High, high is the moon

https://youtu.be/azwgp-IdidM

redlegfrog

How big is big? A photographers full moon is the day before the full moon. There is just enough daylight left to light the landscape. Start shooting just as the moon come up and the moon will be pretty big. The bigger the lens the bigger the moon. I like using the 500mm best.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Music always helps soothe the savage breast

How about this one from Gary Hart.

https://www.outdoorphotographer.com/tips-techniques/nature-landscapes/photograph-the-moon-over-landscapes/

"A little easier is photographing a big moon with smaller foreground objects, such as a prominent tree. Near my home in Northern California are rolling hills topped by solitary oaks. When I can shoot up at these trees and position them against the sky, they make perfect moon foregrounds. And since trees are much smaller than Half Dome, even vantage points that are less than mile away let me include them with the moon all the way out to 1200mm."

Sony a6000, Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Exposure: 1/8, sec., ƒ/11, ISO 400.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

A UHH member created a new topic which provides information and additional examples of "compressing the visual planes."

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-768755-1.html

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Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

There we go. Very nice.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Thank you for your comments. They are appreciated.

John7199 Loc: Eastern Mass.

All great information. Thanks to all!
John

TerryVS

There's several ways to get there but you're not trying to make the moon big, you're trying to make the other stuff small, sort of!

In this example I'm about 10 miles from downtown shooting with a full frame camera and a 500mm lens. It's a single shot and for the record a 2 Meg download processed on my phone. In other words what you see is pretty much what I saw through the camera.

I'm an old film guy so all this sky replacement and severely altering photographs is not how I learned.

Others will have different ways but this works for me.

wmurnahan Loc: Bloomington IN

One of two things, it was shot with a big lens with foreground that is miles away or it is a composite of two pictures.

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

The moon illusion. Is quiet real. The image of a full moon which looks hugh in the sky is the same size through the scope as when it looks high in the sky. Removing all land references.
I see the full moon coming out of the ocean all the time.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

It is a combination of focal length, distance from the subject that will appear in front of the moon, and shooting when the moon is near the horizon. I go to a park in NJ called Eagle Rock Reservoir. You can view downtown Manhattan 25 miles away and if you catch the moon rising behind the city, it will look large enough to eat the city! I shoot at 450-500 mm. I have done this twice without perfect results but will go again when the moon is positioned correctly (as can be determined by using The Photographer's Ephemeris). The first time I tried, it was cloudy, and I got a view of the moon peeking out of a cloud bank. It finally rose above the cloud bank but was too high in the sky to give the desired effect. The second time was during the summer and the combination of city smog and shooting through 25 miles of radiating ground heat makes the shot very difficult. An ideal time to make this shot would be before the vegetation is fully developed like in March or April but the moon has not been in the proper position. This is why most of the great moon shots you see like this are taken out west with the moon rising behind a monolith. Little humidity and vast wide-open spaces are ideal to capture shots like this.

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Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

I used to go to Washington's Rock as a kid, South mountain reservation which over looked that area. Is eagle rock same place.
After we stopped at Grunnings for the best ice cream in the world, either on the hill or in the village. I worked there for few years too.
I grew up in Vailsburg Newark by So Orange Ave Scared Heart church.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

I don't know. I have only known it as Eagle Rock. It is now a memorial park dedicated to the victims of 9/11. There is a granite topped wall with the names of all those who died in the twin tower disaster. I posted a shot of the time I shot it when clouds obscured the moon when it was directly the skyline. If I could have gotten it directly behind the buildings the moon would have appeared even larger.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Love it!!

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Wonderwhy2 Loc: Northern Utah

Your posted weblink would not work so I searched and found it here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167595/amp/Stunning-image-shows-boy-watching-solar-eclipse--taken-1-5-miles-away.html