I really like the moon when it’s not a full circle. The shadows on the horizon are often quite stunning in highlighting the lunar mountains and creating a real three dimensional presence.<\/p>\n
A few days before last night’s full moon I decided to revisit the technical challenge of a half reasonable moon shot with an inexpensive camera.<\/p>\n
The idea is quite simple. Take fifty or more identical images of the moon in in quick succession, like a sports photographer machine gunning for the perfect moment. The difference is that here there is no perfect moment.<\/p>\n
Every image will be a tiny bit different as the atmosphere seethes and twists and curls craters and mountains like a bubbling cauldron or like a distant car shimmering indistinctly on a hot open road.<\/p>\n
Combine all those images in just the right way and it is possible put those craters and mountain and lunar features back into their true locations.<\/p>\n
Does the process make this image truth or creation? Now there’s a question … for another time.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Waxing Gibbous’, 1\/60s f\/22 ISO100 600mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I really like the moon when it’s not a full circle. The shadows on the horizon are often quite stunning in highlighting the lunar mountains and creating a real three dimensional presence. A few days before last night’s full moon I decided to revisit the technical challenge of a half reasonable moon shot with an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[390,440,1830,471,472,138,475,476,474,501],"class_list":["post-6438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astrophotography","tag-celestial","tag-drizzle","tag-gibbous","tag-lunar","tag-moon","tag-practice","tag-technique","tag-telescope","tag-waxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions\/6440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}