Creating a video of the full moon rising directly behind the Golden Gate Bridge has always been a personal photographic challenge for me.
Getting the weather and alignment timed perfectly required some trial and error!
In honor of the full moon energy that we're currently basking in today,
I present my own particular form of lunacy.
Notes: Shot from the Marin Headlands near the Point Bonita Lighthouse approximately 1.5 miles from the GG Bridge. Sped up 10x.
Gear: Panasonic GX7 in crop mode with Metabones Speedboosted Sigma 120-400mm lens at 300mm, with an equivalent focal length of about 1000mm due to the GH7s crop factor combined with the Speedbooster. Worked pretty well considering this was at sea level with quite a bit of atmospheric distortion. Moon location was precisely determined by using a combination of The Photographers Ephemeris and Sun Surveyor... both great apps and extremely important for successfully accomplishing a shoot like this.
Music: Diana Krall "Fly Me to the Moon"
Thanks for watching.
I have a long history of inventing tools for animators and also making films and photographs. My wife, daughter and I live at the foot of beautiful Mt. Tamalpais on the San Francisco Bay and I've been using technology to tell complex stories for a long time. My biggest claim to fame? Leading the team that created Autodesk 3ds Max... the most popular 3D animation tool of all time. When I sold the Yost Group to Autodesk at the end of the last century I jumped headfirst into pursing my original love... photography and filmmaking. Now I spend all of my time exploring the mysteries of my world with my cameras, and revealing what I find in my images and films.
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this was a global phenomenon, falling night captures a very cute image large moon between two palm trees, not controlled at the time, then my surprise, the quality of my camera juice tricks on me and do not take well the photography, there's nothing there, just a shame, it would be today a magnificent portrait, finding excellent congratulations, greetings from Corrientes Argentina
You make the most important point... this is something that every one of us can share. Thanks @jlufer and you can always try again next month! :)
beautiful images Gary.
I posted a few as well from Belgium on Saturday
https://steemit.com/photography/@dreamstream/blood-moon-over-belgium
I shot my pics with a Canon 400mm lens (on Canon SLR) but also have a GX8. Is it possible to use a metabones adapter on a GX8?
Thanks @dreamstream.... it's amazing how similar our moons look... like we could've been in the same place instead of 6,000 miles apart. I guess we WERE in the same place... planet Earth! I love that. And I particularly enjoyed the shot of your dog digging with the moon in the background. Yes... the metabones micro 4/3 adapter works with the entire line of Panny m4/3 cameras. I use it with the GH4 all the time.
I was thinking that as well about how similar the moon looks from two totally different parts of the world. Wish more people would consider themselves as one planet before isolating into meaningless and conflicting factions.
I'll have to check out the metabones adapter then. I've got some nice Canon glass but only two lenses for my Panasonic.