Did you know that last weeks full moon wasn’t just any ordinary full moon, but a ‘super’ moon?? That’s right, and not only that, but it was one of the most ‘super’ moons you can get. A super moon is a full moon at the closest position of the moon along its orbit around the earth. What made this super moon one of the most super ‘super’ moons possible was that the exact full moon happened within an hour of the closest point of the moons orbit. It can’t get much more full than that!! The difference is hardly distinguishable unless compared to a regular full moon, but it was still a pretty cool astronomical phenomenon. On June 23rd the moon was 356,991 kilometers away. If you would like more information about super moons, check out my source on the topic at http://earthsky.org/tonight/is-biggest-and-closest-full-moon-on-june-23-2013-a-supermoon .
Now, I have to admit that this full moon photo wasn’t taken on June 23rd, but just a few days before, but its pretty close!! I was on a bike ride with my dad coming back from the city and we saw the beautiful sunset, so we pulled over at the lake to watch it. Fortunately I had my camera so I was able to capture the gorgeous colors! Then when we turned around, we saw the beautiful full moon glowing over the city. Having not had a lot of success shooting the moon in the past, I wasn’t sure how it was going to come out, so I had to try a bunch of different exposures to make sure I captured all of the detail of the face of the moon without letting the reflection of the sun completely blow out all the details. It really helped that it was right at dusk so we still had come light and color in the sky in order to keep a faster exposure. I ended up hand holding my Nikon D600 with the 70-200 mm at 200mm at f/4 ISO 200 1/400s. The sunset picture was taken at 28mm f/8 ISO400 1/100s.
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-ZAM
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