We are having a blue moon over the next few nights (a second full moon in a month) and last night the sky here in NW Ohio was very clear. So I decided to brave the cold temperatures and try out some of the techniques from the book I reviewed a few days ago, Creative Night.
At first I tried taking shots using a cable release to get a longer exposure, but even with the lens stopped down to its lowest aperture, I was getting a lot of lens flare because of the brightest of the moon and the ambient light in the city. So I went in the opposite direction and set the camera to a very fast shutter speed, and captured the image above. This was shot at f/25 ISO 200 at 1/125 of a second. Pretty cool!
Here is a second shot taken at 1/320 of a second a few seconds prior to the above one.
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Fantastic Moon shots!