With only 12-13 full moon dates each year, I like planning ahead to catch the moon rising at sunset and setting at sunrise. In addition to the full moon setting at sunrise tomorrow, the nearly-full moon will rise just before sunset tonight. This timing is useful in landscape photography because you can catch some color in the rising and setting moon, but you can also catch the landscape lit well enough to balance the moon and landscape exposures. In other words, as the moon brightens and the landscape darkens, you'll enjoy a few minutes where you have the opportunity to catch the moon with detail over the landscape (not simply as a blown out white disk).
Here are a couple of blog posts I've written on the topic;
Anticipating Sun and Moon Alignments
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2010/03/anticipating-sun-and-moon-position.html
Plan Ahead for Great Full Moon Rise and Set Shots!
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2006/11/plan-ahead-for-great-full-moon-rise-and.html
The image below is the full moon setting during a lunar eclipse just before dawn at Mono Lake, much like it will tomorrow morning for observers in the Western U.S. (weather permitting). I had hoped to catch the moon rising and setting here tonight as my back-up plan when my first choices clouded over, but our skies are looking pretty cloudy here as well, and the forecast is not promising.
Lunar eclipse moon set over Mono Lake
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This has to be Mono Lake in California, I love photographing that lake ;o)
Very nice and moody!
fantastic colors
+Jeff Sullivan wonderful image Jeff and thanks for the tip.
fantastic picture!
awesome pic
nice pic Jeff….I was down at the same spot at sunrise but I think the moonlight is much nicer.:-)
Very good
This is a "blue hour" shot before sunrise +Kevin Cook, where the approaching light of the approaching sun is behind the camera, so there's light on the side of the tufa rock formations facing the camera, even though the moon is setting. Mono Lake is great that way… the basin is about 20 miles across, so the light from the approaching sun enables photography an hour or more ahead of the actual rise of the sun.
Bad moon on the rise
+Charles Lupica As that second blog article describes, the app +The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) not only shows you accurate sun and moon rise times for any given location on a Google Earth map, but it also shows the suna dn moon directions for any time of day as we.., so you can adjust your shooting position to put the moon next to a natural or man-made landmark. TPE is free for Macs and PCs.
One of my coolest anticipated alignments I've pulled off so far was positioning my camera ahead of time to have last December's lunar eclipse pass directly behind the tip of the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco for a time-lapse video, as described on
+Philip Plait's Discover Magazine +Bad Astronomy blog : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/12/lunar-eclipse-time-lapse/
Superbe
Fantastic
Linda!!!! thanks
Wonder on the Far Horizon.
moon peeks
Thanks for the tip! And great photo! 😀
Breathtaking image ..mother nature 'the moon' doesn't let me sleep tonight
i like it
That is beautiful. We have had clouds all day, rain will be here before to long. Thanks.
BEAUTIFUL
LINDA! THANKS
BEAUTIFUL!! =D
i love it
Amazing.
coool
woooooooooooh nice
Greeeeaaaatttt…
Beautiful photo!
Amazing!
Very nice pic……………
Gorgeous! Love the deep rich color!
GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY..
wow!
nice pic….superb.
cool…assum clicked
i thk u should take part in some photography competitions….i am sure u will win…
agreed..
moon is always COOL….
Fabolous shot !
simply epic ^_^
incredible and wonderful photo
SO BEAUTIFUL
bella immagine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =) molto bella!!!!!!!!!!!! =)
nice
Wonderful!
Wonderful!! +Jeff Sullivan
too nice
Me encanta!
My new wallpaper. Very nice.
SO TALANTED PHOTOGRAPH, CONGRATULATONS
Will take my camera to the beach tonight. Am inspired to try and catch special moments when I see your amazing shots thank you
Very nice!
SO BEAUTY
Beautiful! 🙂
There are no words to describe your photography the pictures say it all thank you for sharing.
its really such a nice view
Looks Good in the Morn.
nice pic
WOW!!!
Creedanc
woooo
nice view……
ت
تا
oohh such a pearl +Jeff Sullivan 🙂
Great photo and work! +Jeff Sullivan
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Oh My God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3
nice shot