Canon XSi, 75-300mm lens at 75mm, f/11, 30 seconds.
Last week, I was riding in a car on the Belt Parkway at night. I looked out the window and saw the crescent moon hanging in the sky. I decided to try to get the picture.
In reality, I knew even before I started that it was a futile effort. The road was bumpy, it was late at night and I didn't have a tripod to steady the shot (not that it would have helped because of the bouncing the car was doing). Nonetheless, I decided "what the heck," attached my zoom lens, pointed the camera out the window and opened the shutter.
I kept the shutter opened for 30 seconds, hoping to catch some part of the moon. The picture above is the result. The lights you see are streaks of light* from street lights, headlights and various buildings in the background as we drove by.
As it turns out, I *did* manage to get the moon in my picture. It's the wispy, smoky part of the image in the lower right corner.
The moral of the story: You never know what you're going to get and (at least with digital) it always pays to shoot liberally. I knew I had no real chance of getting a nice moon shot, but because I decided to try anyway, I ended up with a very different type of image.
The Wolf
* I discussed how to make light trails in this post.
5 comments:
A point to remember the moon is a sunlit grey rock. Even though it may be night when you are looking at it it is in daylight.
I managed some very nice moon shots a while ago by using my telescope as a F15 1900mm lens. I am planning more but probably not until summer.
I'm planning to do them with fine grained B&W film
that's very cool
That is really a nice photographic effect, even if you didn't get what you were aiming for.
its tzitzis that you took out when you blessed the moon
It looks like a Van Gogh painting.
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