Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Day 137 - Moon Over the Ocean


As I've said before, shooting the moon is tricky, because it's actually quite bright since it's just reflected sunlight. In this photo, I wanted to capture the details the moonlight gave to the water below and the clouds around it. I could have done different exposures, then combined them into one photo to get the moon detail, but thought I'd just go ahead and post the one pic as I shot it with the moon as a big washed out ball. I still think the light on the water is neat, and the white of the waves breaking in the lower left. To get that out of what was pretty much complete darkness, I used a 30-second exposure at f8 with an ASA of 400.

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