mattymeis
Beyond
I spent a lot of time shooting moon rise during my few days in the southwest. I love it because you can get awesome light with some amazing color in the sky, plus stars and the darkness of night. I was too tired to get up at 3am for actual moon rise with this one, but still made it out to these rocks with just enough time to catch the moon starting to peak over the red sandstone. It is hard to grasp how tall the rocks are so I wanted to include some scale...AKA me. So, I set my self-timer to 20s and had my camera take 8 shots back-to-back...hoping I would get one where I was sharp. It was pretty tough to climb up there...I tried to do it as fast as possible so I was jumping around and trying to scramble up some steep areas. It took me about a minute to make it where I wanted and I stood still for about 5 minutes before climbing back down. I then took a long exposure for the landscape. The moonlight was so strong that I only need a few minutes at ISO 100. Seems like there was some planet floating around too as you can see some really strong light to the right of me, not sure what it was. I kept shooting until sunrise, which turned out to be awesome...I was tired, but it was a blast to shoot night stuff right up to an epic sunrise.
Beyond
I spent a lot of time shooting moon rise during my few days in the southwest. I love it because you can get awesome light with some amazing color in the sky, plus stars and the darkness of night. I was too tired to get up at 3am for actual moon rise with this one, but still made it out to these rocks with just enough time to catch the moon starting to peak over the red sandstone. It is hard to grasp how tall the rocks are so I wanted to include some scale...AKA me. So, I set my self-timer to 20s and had my camera take 8 shots back-to-back...hoping I would get one where I was sharp. It was pretty tough to climb up there...I tried to do it as fast as possible so I was jumping around and trying to scramble up some steep areas. It took me about a minute to make it where I wanted and I stood still for about 5 minutes before climbing back down. I then took a long exposure for the landscape. The moonlight was so strong that I only need a few minutes at ISO 100. Seems like there was some planet floating around too as you can see some really strong light to the right of me, not sure what it was. I kept shooting until sunrise, which turned out to be awesome...I was tired, but it was a blast to shoot night stuff right up to an epic sunrise.