Supermoon Sunday...

[Remorhaz]

We headed down to Dawes Point under the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge because The Photographers Ephemeris indicated that the moon would rise directly behind the Sydney Opera House and as luck would have it also approximately at the same time as sunset and twilight (moonrise at 5:06PM and sunset at 5:09PM behind us):



Sunset and early twilight was very pretty with soft pastel colours in the sky



Unfortunately we'd setup too far to the right and the moon was already above the horizon behind the Opera House before we moved over to the left just in front of the main bridge pilon. From here we could watch as the moon rose whilst there was still a little light and a touch of colour left in the sky



Actually truth be told it didn't seem all that much bigger than normal but having it lined up with the Sydney Opera House with a nice clear sky behind it was pretty good.

As the moon rose and twilight headed towards full night and it became progressively much darker we moved back up the hill a little towards our original setup location



By now I was bracketing exposures (at +-2 stops with a base exposure of at least -4EV to cope with the very bright moon). The -6EV exposure results in an almost black sky but with a nicely exposed moon and the -2EV exposure results in some colour in the sky and detail on the SOH but a nuclear moon. For the following I took the three exposures into photoshop and blended the moon from the better layers into the layer for the environment



Eventually we moved back to where we'd started with the moon directly above the sails (and a little behind) but the sky was so dark by this stage that nothing I took at this time with the sails was really salvageable.

[the foto fanatic]

Lovely series Rodney

[ATJ]

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[Remorhaz]

Lovely series Rodney

Thanks Trevor

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Strange - anyone else? They are hosted on my own server (and show for me) so I'm not sure why?

[PiroStitch]

Looks like it was a great night out with some great results

[aim54x]

Nice work Rodney

[surenj]

#1 Nice pastels. They lasted only a few minutes and I think I may have missed them.... I reckon that shadow looks like the bridge!! Stellar.

#2 looks like a sweet spot exposure.

#3 too dark on my screen.

#4 is quite nice with detail in both moon and SOH. It looks very believable apart from the small step in brightness which I can see. I am not sure how this appear naturally so not sure. My exposures were ok but it seemed the moon or tripod moved a little so I need to fire up PS.... large fire with hot chocolate.

[Remorhaz]

#1 Nice pastels. They lasted only a few minutes and I think I may have missed them.... I reckon that shadow looks like the bridge!! Stellar.

It does and is

#2 looks like a sweet spot exposure.

Yep the moon turned out nicely with this with still a little colour in the sky - lucky we moved down to the bottom to get these shots - if we'd waited back where we were for the moon to pop up above the SOH we would have only had black skies and white moon

#3 too dark on my screen.

Yeah - I was going for that only very faint detail of the SOH styling (which obviously isn't working) - it looks better in full res on my big screen

#4 is quite nice with detail in both moon and SOH. It looks very believable apart from the small step in brightness which I can see. I am not sure how this appear naturally so not sure. My exposures were ok but it seemed the moon or tripod moved a little so I need to fire up PS.... large fire with hot chocolate.

By step - do you mean around the moon? the dark halo in the white?

[surenj]

By step - do you mean around the moon? the dark halo in the white?

Yes.