I had no plan to photograph the moon last night, but it looked so bright. So, I ran out and snapped a few pics. Here you go……
Snack Shack
While in Mexico, I spent less time than normal shooting photos. I just needed some down time from everything. From work, stress, the Internet, etc… So I took some photos, but probably only 25% of the total I would normally take. I went out one night after dinner to capture some pics. Tonight’s post is from that photo walk. This is the resort poolside snack shack with a full moon above it. I love the sky in this photo.
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Blood Moon Over Pittsburgh
Tonight, Blair and I went into the city to meet Brad for a photo walk. Except we really didn’t walk anywhere. We met at the Duquesne Incline to photograph the city with the super moon rising over the city. It seems like a waste of time because there were to many clouds. But all of a sudden, it popped out and we got a brief show.
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Carnival Valor By Moon Light
As you may have noticed, MJ and I have been away. We were on a cruise to celebrate our 26th Anniversary. They’ve been wonderful years covering the range of emotions, experiences and activities. I’m an extremely lucky guy.
Anyway, let’s talk about this photo and how I captured it. It is my habit when cruising to get up at least one morning at around 5am to walk around the cruise ship and photograph it. I like that time for a few reasons:
1. All the other tourist are sleeping off the previous night’s party, which means I have the ship to myself. And you know I don’t take many people pictures. If it weren’t for the few Carnival employees that are working, it would really look like a ghost ship.
2. Once I get done photographing the ship, it is usually time to capture the sunrise. So I get a two for one arrangement.
There is only one negative of my approach, the ship’s security team never know what to make of me. On this last trip, I counted no less then 6-security people following me around. A few of them talked to me, but the rest just watch from a distance. Normally you’ll never see a security person on a cruise except when you leave and enter the ship. But when I am out photographing the ship in the middle of the night, it must raise a red flag in the security department.
So this photo was captured at around 6am and you can see the moon is still high in the sky. And of course, it looks like I have the ship to myself.
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Special note: If you’ve ever been on a cruise before, you know they try to take your photo all the time (because they want to sell you a print later). They’ll photograph you at dinner, boarding the ship, leaving the ship, on excursions, around the pool, etc…. One of their big things are to setup mini photo stations around dinner time so you can stop by and get your photo taken while you’re all cleaned up. Anyway, MJ and I were on our way to dinner one night and we saw this photography backdrop at one of the photography stations. What caught our attention is that this backdrop is of Pittsburgh. So all these people from around the United States, who are on the high seas in the Caribbean, were stopping to get their photograph taken in front of the Pittsburgh skyline. I thought that was interesting.
Super Moon
I looked up and read about the Super Moon taking place this weekend. I told my wife about it and I had my camera ready. But I forgot all about it last night until a friend sent me a text asking how my shots looked. With that reminder, I went out and captured a few. So a big thanks to Rico for the reminder.
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Super Moon
It is what it is!!
I took this photo last night with the following:
Nikon D800
Sigma 70-300mm 2.8f
Aperture set at 13f
Exposure time: 1/80
Focal Length: 420 (I put my 1.4x tele-extender on the lens)
I set all this up on my tripod.
After I took the picture, I cropped the photo and sharpened it some in Photoshop CS6. Otherwise, “It is what it is!!”
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