How do you describe the moon rising above the mangrove swamps of Garden Island behind the silhouette of the Torrens Island transmission towers? A ‘3M’ moment perhaps! Or perhaps just the three things I captured in the frame.
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moonrise
Full
The full moon carries a special fascination and being up for a technical challenge I thought I’d try and see just how good an image I could get from a 200mm lens. Actually it’s not quite full having just begun waning but I’m still happy with the result. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Full’, 1/400s f/7.1 ISO100 […]
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Almost
Sometime ‘almost’ really is good enough. When the moon is almost full the shadowed edge is has structure and detail of craters that is lost on a full moon. When the the sky is completely clear of cloud there is nothing to put context around an otherwise bright object in a black sky. This almost […]
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Veiled Moon
Shrouded behind veils of patchy cloud an impossible challenge is to capture the details of the lunar surface as well as the intricate details of wispy cloud. In the end a compromise was to over expose the moon, to under expose the clouds and do my best to get detail in both. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
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