Moon Mania!

[JimFox]

Well, I have an obsession with the moon it seems this last week or so.

This was another night I was out last week in Joshua Tree capturing Deep Space Astro, and I set up one of the cameras out about a 1/4 mile into the desert to do an all night timelapse while I worked on the Deep Space.

The night part was shot at:
ISO 3200
f2.8
25 secs
Nikon D810
Samyang 14mm Mk2 f2.8

Assembled in Photoshop

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All comments are welcome,

Jim

PS. I added something a little special at the end. Hint, it's something I typically avoid.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Really nice control of exposure. I am guessing your shadow is the added feature

 

[JimFox]

Really nice control of exposure. I am guessing your shadow is the added feature

Thanks Ben!

Ha ha... you guessed it! Good thing you got to see this before Alan, because I know he would have spotted that.

So what do you think with my shadow walking through at the end? A nice little touch? Something a little different visually to catch the eye? Or a waste of time?

 

[Ben Egbert]

I usually try to minimize shadows so adding them on purposes seems strange. I don't think it adds anything.

 

[AlanLichty]

Interesting how well the passing car headlights are visible when you have full direct moonlight on the scene. It almost feels like sunlight with the exposure settings and then the headlights flash by the hills. The air traffic visible from there is quite notable - especially right after it first gets dark.

Your camera shadow on its tripod shows up before you wander past

 

[JimFox]

I usually try to minimize shadows so adding them on purposes seems strange. I don't think it adds anything.

Thanks Ben.

 

[JimFox]

Interesting how well the passing car headlights are visible when you have full direct moonlight on the scene. It almost feels like sunlight with the exposure settings and then the headlights flash by the hills. The air traffic visible from there is quite notable - especially right after it first gets dark.

Your camera shadow on its tripod shows up before you wander past

That's one nice thing about the moon light as it does help mask the car headlights. I had hoped I wouldn't be getting any car headlights on the Joshua Tree as I purposely chose this one as it's down more in a little valley between the road and hills in the background. I would say I am 30 to 40 feet lower then the road. In my last video which was taken a week earlier from this same location, I didn't notice and headlights except for a couple of times. Oh well... It's really hard to not get head lights out there. Especially now as the headlights of today seriously seem to be at least 10x brighter then the headlights were when we were first driving.

Yeah, the camera shadow poked it's head in. I may post a slower version of just the moon set and the sunrise. I think it could be cool.