A Dark And Stormy Night

© Gregory Summers

A Dark And Stormy Night

Uploaded: December 09, 2001

Description

moonset on Sanitas Ridge

Comments

Dolores Neilson December 09, 2001

Gregory, I have been admiring your work ever since I discovered it at Field and Forest. I think that you produce some of the finest scene/landscape shots I have ever seen. What is your secret for this one? Are you using a telephoto? What ISO? When I attempted a moon shot similar to this, my moon was very tiny.
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January 06, 2002

Gregory,
This is an amazing shot. Im very new to photography and I'm still pretty frightened of low light shots. Would you mind sharing what your film/shutter/apeture settings were for this shot? Thanks! #4494

Gregory Summers January 06, 2002

Well, this really isn't a low light shot - it was taken at sunrise and Ihave a few others from the same shoot. It is underexposed - the exacvt numerical setting, I don't know but here's how I did it. I took a spot meter reading off the moon. I stood on a ridge running parallel to this ridge about 400 feet away so with the 400mm lens DOF, while still a problem, was resolved by closing down the lens to around f11. I am attaching another shot from the same morning and I took a spot reading off the moon and then set the camera to over expose the moon by about 2 f-stops stillretaining detail and giving a different feel to the scene. I used a tripod - bogen and a pistol grip head and cable release. I find the moonsets are more intersting for me than moon rises - and in the location - it occurs about 2 days after the full moon. The important part of moon shots for me is to find a framing element and use a long lense to create the perspective of size between the trees and the moon - I am not one one for digital tricks when it comes to moon images. #4521

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