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First Full Moon of Winter

The first full moon of 2017 and Winter. It was a cold and windy night. I was thinking I must me either dedicated or crazy (of course, both could be true). To properly expose both the moon (which is very bright) and the light house I used a 5 step bracket, set for +/- 3 stops. I then used 2 photos to make the picture - one of the moon and the other for the lighthouse. Below is another taken at 400mm.

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January 13, 2017

Staring at the supermoon

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Luna

Lighting, composition, compression, exposure - all part of the tool kit for any photographer. The moon is one of the hardest things to photograph properly. Never had a camera that could expose the moon properly - the contrast between the bright moon and the dark sky always causes an over exposure. The moon is really bright and you have to adjust the exposure downward much more than you would expect! Canon 5d MkIII | Canon 70-200 f/2.8 + 2x teleconverter | 400mm | 1/200s at f/5.6

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December 5, 2016

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Best Laid Plans

The best laid plans of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Robert Burns August full moon and I was ready! It was a beautiful night in Oshkosh - just perfect! Temp was around 80, modest humidity and there was music playing at Waterfest. I arrived on time and set up the perfect shot. I would capture the full moon rising between the girders of the rail road bridge across the Fox River. This would be an awesome shot with the diagonal bridge outlined acaings the darkening sky. I used…

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August 23, 2016

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Strawberry Moonrise on The Summer Solstice

The Strawberry moon rises over Lake Winnebago. The full moon in June is known as the strawberry moon - guess it is time to pick! This year the full moon came on the Summer Solstice (the longest day of the year). Won't happen again in my lifetime! There are two difficult things about photographing the moon - it is so bright and it moves pretty fast. Where you usually have to crank up the ISO and slow down the shutter for the moon you need a pretty fast shutter and a low ISO. This was taken at 400mm so the…

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June 21, 2016

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Moonrise over Corn

Just some fun on a Friday. The sun is coming our and maybe it will be warm today. I'll risk it to say Spring is Here! This is a composition (I think it's pretty obvious) of some fun photos. Friday should be about fun so here it is!

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May 6, 2016

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Lantern Festival – Full Moon

We celebrated the Lantern Festival last night with dear friends. Unfortunately there were too many clouds to seen the full moon so this shot from the last full moon will have to do. The Lantern Festival occurs on the first full moon after Chinese New Year and is a time for celebration, family and friends Lantern Festival. The moon is especially hard to shoot as it is so bright! Your camera wants to overexpose so you usually have to set the camera to manual. This shot was taken at 200mm on a tripod with a 10 second delay to minimize…

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February 22, 2016

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Super Moon Rise

The Super moon was on July 13th but clouds blocked. I shot this on July 14th so still pretty nice. Just working with my new camera slider rail. The hardest part is getting the exposure set so the video is not too light in the beginning and not too dark at the end.

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January 3, 2016

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Before The Storm

Just a short test run of my new home made video rail. Everything worked out pretty well. The moon disappeared as the stormy weather moved in. More videos to come! Before The Storm from Jalanlee on Vimeo.

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November 12, 2015