Super Moon

Hello All,

My apologies that I missed my past two Wednesdays! I am officially back now, with some hopefully interesting photos for the world. ;)

As you might have known, there was a Super Moon out a couple of days ago. I geared up with the tallest setting on my tripod and my mom's camera, equipped with the long-range lens. I thought I was good to go, I mean, seriously, that's all you'd need, right?

Apparently not. 

I mean, this is a pretty good picture, but my perfectionist self was looking for something more. I needed to change the settings on the camera, but I didn't know how...off to the internet I went! I found some amazing moon pictures and some settings, and after a bit of fiddling I was able to get some shots that satisfied me. You sort of have to treat the moon like it's the sun since it's so bright, and normal camera settings won't take pictures that capture the details of the moon. I also noticed, for the same reason of brightness, my camera took better pictures when there was some slight cloud cover (and I had plenty of that). 

Ta-da! 

I'd like to use this for a book cover or something, but at the moment I don't have anything like that.

 I also got some moon bokeh. 

 The moon fails here, but I thought the clouds were super neat. 

 My neighbor's campfire gone crazy.

Have a great week, everyone...I'll see you in two Wednesdays. ;)

~Quinlyn