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Supermoon Rise over Dallas (My 1-Year Flickr Anniversary)
This week marks the 1-year anniversary of my weekly (if not traveling) photo postings on Flickr. Wow, time has flown by quickly! My family will be growing soon so hopefully I’ll have time to continue this weekly tradition. If anything it might just mean I need to process more photos at once rather than more spread out like I currently do.
Another cool bit of news is I recently learned that Asklens.com has chosen me to be the focus of their next Photographer Spotlight series after finding my work here on Flickr! These are the same guys behind the very useful howmuchblur.com site. That was a surprising bit of news and I’m honored to have been chosen. It’s certainly a nice way to commemorate the 1-year anniversary :) Here's the article and interview: Asklens.com - Photographer Spotlight: Denny Yang.
Lastly, some have asked if I’m on Facebook and I am. You can find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dennyang.
Now onto this week’s picture. The Supermoon of November 14, 2016 was said to be the closest the Moon has been to Earth since January of 1948. On that day, the Moon was 30% brighter and 14% bigger than an average full moon. This phenomenon occurs when a full or new moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth, its perigee, and is a result of the Moon’s elliptical orbit around the Earth.
Before photographing, I had brainstormed interesting landmarks around Dallas that would showcase the size and shape of the Supermoon. The round ball of the Reunion Tower with the Dallas skyline won out. Obviously many people had similar ideas though as there were around 30 photographers shooting the skyline that night. Upon arrival I realized that the Moon would be smaller than I imagined next to the ball of Reunion Tower. Maybe seeing too many Photoshopped images of giant moons over a city had warped my expectations. Nonetheless it was a nice non-muddy night and I definitely learned my lesson and parked closer this time. The last time I was there shooting for the picture “Dallas Fire and Ice Sunset” I had to walk roughly 20 minutes over extremely muddy paths to get to my shooting location.
This was my first experience shooting with the Sony 70-300mm and I must say that the focal range is pretty nice to have in a single lens. This is actually the longest native zoom currently available for Sony full-frame E-mount and I’d say the lens is pretty sharp especially stopped down. Not super-sharp like the G-Masters or some Zeiss primes, but sharp enough for most applications.
Supermoon Rise over Dallas (My 1-Year Flickr Anniversary)
This week marks the 1-year anniversary of my weekly (if not traveling) photo postings on Flickr. Wow, time has flown by quickly! My family will be growing soon so hopefully I’ll have time to continue this weekly tradition. If anything it might just mean I need to process more photos at once rather than more spread out like I currently do.
Another cool bit of news is I recently learned that Asklens.com has chosen me to be the focus of their next Photographer Spotlight series after finding my work here on Flickr! These are the same guys behind the very useful howmuchblur.com site. That was a surprising bit of news and I’m honored to have been chosen. It’s certainly a nice way to commemorate the 1-year anniversary :) Here's the article and interview: Asklens.com - Photographer Spotlight: Denny Yang.
Lastly, some have asked if I’m on Facebook and I am. You can find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dennyang.
Now onto this week’s picture. The Supermoon of November 14, 2016 was said to be the closest the Moon has been to Earth since January of 1948. On that day, the Moon was 30% brighter and 14% bigger than an average full moon. This phenomenon occurs when a full or new moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth, its perigee, and is a result of the Moon’s elliptical orbit around the Earth.
Before photographing, I had brainstormed interesting landmarks around Dallas that would showcase the size and shape of the Supermoon. The round ball of the Reunion Tower with the Dallas skyline won out. Obviously many people had similar ideas though as there were around 30 photographers shooting the skyline that night. Upon arrival I realized that the Moon would be smaller than I imagined next to the ball of Reunion Tower. Maybe seeing too many Photoshopped images of giant moons over a city had warped my expectations. Nonetheless it was a nice non-muddy night and I definitely learned my lesson and parked closer this time. The last time I was there shooting for the picture “Dallas Fire and Ice Sunset” I had to walk roughly 20 minutes over extremely muddy paths to get to my shooting location.
This was my first experience shooting with the Sony 70-300mm and I must say that the focal range is pretty nice to have in a single lens. This is actually the longest native zoom currently available for Sony full-frame E-mount and I’d say the lens is pretty sharp especially stopped down. Not super-sharp like the G-Masters or some Zeiss primes, but sharp enough for most applications.