On Wednesday evening, August 30, 2023 there will be a Super Blue Moon.
I am currently in Southern California, so I am showing Sunset at 7:22pm and the Moonrise at 7:34pm, so close enough to make for some cool Landscapes/Cityscapes etc if you want.
For those who have not captured the moon before, the longer your lens is, the larger the moon will appear in your frame. Giving it an appearance of being larger. Now the longer lens that you do use, the less Depth of Field you will have. So if you focus on the moon, the ground could be out of focus, and if you focus on the ground, the moon could be out of focus. Now I mentioned "could be", that will all be determined by your focal length and your distance from the ground object. So if I am using a longer lens, for example a 300mm lens and my foreground object, let's say a tree is only 10 feet from me, when I focus on the tree, the moon will be out of focus. But, using that same 300mm lens, if I focus on a distant mountain that is several miles away, there is a good chance the moon would be in focus. The point being you might have to take 2 images, and then blend them together with a layer mask, one image focused on the ground, and one focused on the moon.
Or.... you could just cheat and enlarge the moon in Photoshop or whatever post processing software you use.
But for myself, I want to optically get with 1 focal length lense. Not sure if I will go with 300mm, or even longer yet, like 500 to 600mm.
As for the focusing, be sure to look up a HyperFocal chart if you want to figure out before hand if the moon and ground will be in focus for you.
Now comes my dilemma.... I am not sure what I want to use for a ground element. I could run out to the desert like Joshua Tree, or I could use some local mountains, or I could go to Los Angeles and use some sky scrapers. Share your ideas, and maybe it will spark an idea for me.
Jim
I am currently in Southern California, so I am showing Sunset at 7:22pm and the Moonrise at 7:34pm, so close enough to make for some cool Landscapes/Cityscapes etc if you want.
For those who have not captured the moon before, the longer your lens is, the larger the moon will appear in your frame. Giving it an appearance of being larger. Now the longer lens that you do use, the less Depth of Field you will have. So if you focus on the moon, the ground could be out of focus, and if you focus on the ground, the moon could be out of focus. Now I mentioned "could be", that will all be determined by your focal length and your distance from the ground object. So if I am using a longer lens, for example a 300mm lens and my foreground object, let's say a tree is only 10 feet from me, when I focus on the tree, the moon will be out of focus. But, using that same 300mm lens, if I focus on a distant mountain that is several miles away, there is a good chance the moon would be in focus. The point being you might have to take 2 images, and then blend them together with a layer mask, one image focused on the ground, and one focused on the moon.
Or.... you could just cheat and enlarge the moon in Photoshop or whatever post processing software you use.
But for myself, I want to optically get with 1 focal length lense. Not sure if I will go with 300mm, or even longer yet, like 500 to 600mm.As for the focusing, be sure to look up a HyperFocal chart if you want to figure out before hand if the moon and ground will be in focus for you.
Now comes my dilemma.... I am not sure what I want to use for a ground element. I could run out to the desert like Joshua Tree, or I could use some local mountains, or I could go to Los Angeles and use some sky scrapers. Share your ideas, and maybe it will spark an idea for me.
Jim
