No Moon

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 6, 2012173 views11 comments

My wife and I went out last night to hoping to get some images of a huge red moon coming up over the horizon between some buttes on the prairie, but this is what we had. Early evening the clouds starting moving in and covered everything. This is the western horizon about the time the moon should have been coming up. It was dark and we were heading home when I saw a bright light in a slit in the clouds in the east. I pulled over and the moon came out in a brake in the clouds for a minute or two, but not in a any position to give me any good shots and disappeared again into the darkness. It was an awesome sky to watch develop and move though. This a pano of six images stitched and processed in PSE9. All C&C are welcome and appreciated.

Canon 40D
Sigma 17-70
All settings on manual
Shutter 0.8
Aperture f18
ISO 100
70mm
Tripod and remote shutter release
Cropped to 75% of original pano stitch

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Rick Turner on May 6, 2012 at 10:29 AM

Good story and a bad day shooting nature is a good day overall. I like the mood in this capture.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on May 6, 2012 at 11:01 AM

Sorry you missed the moon (it snowed here) but I do like the sky you captured. Very nice

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Comment posted by Daniel Rappaport on May 6, 2012 at 1:12 PM

Beautiful cloud pano. Defintely benefits from being larger.

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Comment posted by Hamed Musharbak on May 6, 2012 at 1:30 PM

amazing clouds

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on May 6, 2012 at 3:28 PM

Hi Richard, To bad you missed the moon, but those clouds look awesome!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on May 6, 2012 at 5:06 PM

That sky is ominously beautiful Richard! Nice detail in the clouds and that touch of red is gorgeous. Heavy cloud cover here last night so no super moon for me either. At least you were treated to a gorgeous sky.

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Comment posted by Florian Aubin on May 6, 2012 at 6:50 PM

beautiful view and treatment on sky, large view is terrific!

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Comment posted by Youssef Ismail on May 6, 2012 at 9:00 PM

Nice. I think you came back with a great image.

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on May 6, 2012 at 10:51 PM

Absolutely perfect exposure and processing for this amazing sky! Hey, the moon itself looks pretty much the same from month to month, but how often do you see spectacular clouds and colors like this?

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Comment posted by Scott Smorra on May 6, 2012 at 11:25 PM

No moon, but I still really like this image. The clouds against the silhouetted landscape are very nice. I like the textures and light in the clouds as well.

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Comment posted by Lucy Aron on May 21, 2012 at 11:01 AM

Unusual shot and panorama really captures the feeling.

lucy

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