Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Moonscape Challenge

A slight pause in the landscape challenge pictures to put up last night's "super moon", which is just a new moon when the moon is closer to the Earth than normal. This is a composite of two shots as you can't get the bright moon sharp and still have dark foreground elements like the trees in the picture. So, the moon is a bit more "super" in this shot than normal. Oh well. That's photography. Can't trust what you see. My moon is a little bigger than it actually was in real life as I swapped a too bright moon from one shot to a sharp moon picture in the other. Doing that decreases the size of the moon as the blurry moon is bigger. So, to compensate, I had to increase the size of the sharp moon to fill the hole. Does that make sense? Could you tell in advance? Anyway, I was lucky to get the moon at all as a storm was blowing through. No rain but a nice spring light show.