I was living in my old building at that time and all my neighbors were all up on the roof and we were all photographing this thing and I really didn't have equipment to get close enough to this because it was a little bit high in the sky where we were from Dallas and so one of my neighbors actually had a telescope and I had made this image and literally this was done on my iPhone I start my iPhone into the telescope viewfinder and so you know whatever works I guess and if you're super nerdy and into astronomy there are ways that you can connect a DSLR a mirrorless camera to a really nice telescope to if you're really into that thing most people don't take it to that extreme

the other thing to consider is time and when you are going to be photographing the moon and if you do it too early when the Sun still up it's hard to see the moon obviously because you have reflected sunlight competing against daylight if you wait too late it's hard to get if you want to incorporate landscape or any elements on the ground into your composition it's harder to do because the exposure the moon is so bright it's reflecting sunlight and so the best times to do this are usually either a dawn or dusk depending on where you are in the world and where the moon is going to be and when it's going to be at full

and so when you do this and here's this is a time-lapse that I shot when I had the sony rx10 and you can get some interesting effects if you shoot a little bit earlier to allow a little bit of light in the sky to come through with that now the reason I'm mentioning all this and I think this is actually kind of cool because I think this would make an interesting example for the photo assignments that we're doing

is part of the show where we're doing 10 different images and variations on those images try to approach this 10 different way so this will be challenging because it's kind of hard your one vantage point the moon's a long way away and you may have only so much landscape to deal with and how far can you move before the moon has changed position

I mean there's a lot that goes into it so I'll probably do it for photo assignments in fact I will do it for photo sense I think it's going to be an interesting challenge

so this is the these things are what pushes is photographers and remember we're giving ourselves permission to fail 10 images a lot for something like this but the whole idea is that maybe you'll have one in here that is something you've never done before that works and it comes out and it's the right thing to do so that's what you want to look at it as

and the last thing I want to mention about this in terms of the supermoon the term super moon is a term that's been used mainly by the media in recent years it doesn't go very far back and it's mainly used to hype events that we have and I don't want to diminish that because this is the closest it's been since 1948 apparently

and it won't be this close again until what is it 20:34 November of twenty thirty four so you know it's an interesting event but again because of that illusion is to where the moon is in the sky and how big you're going to perceive it most people will go out to look at a super moon and if you don't know what you're looking for and you don't know you don't have any point of reference for what that looks like on a regular full moon

it may not look that much different and most people will just simply perceive it to be that in fact if you look at the difference in this image is also from space calm this is what a supermoon is in relationship to a regular full moon and you can see that it is significantly larger but again if you don't know what you're looking for don't have a context for it then you may not notice the difference

in fact it's interesting that article goes on to say it's like comparing a six inch 16 inch pizza to a 15 inch pizza it's larger but unless you've had that Pizza bunch you probably won't notice the difference so anyway

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enon Monday you were going to see what is referred to as a super moon and I want to talk about that and I want to talk about photographing the moon as well I don't know if this is something you guys are planning on doing or not but I think it's going to be quite interesting so this is according to space.com and they mentioned that on Monday November 14th at 6:15 a.m. Eastern Standard Time the moon will arrive at its closest point to the earth in 2016 this will be a distance of two hundred and twenty one thousand five hundred and twenty-four miles away this distance which is measured from the center of the earth to the center of the moon is within eighty five miles of the moon's closest possible approach to earth to be sure this is an extreme perigee and so what this means is if you've ever photographed the moon and you know kind of what the optical illusion that the moon does is when it's near the horizon it's going to look really big and this is going to be a super moon so this is extremely big and I think it's also important and worth noting on here and they talked about this when the moon appears near the horizon when it is rising and so this will be just before 5:00 p.m. on November 14th that's when the famous moon illusion will kick in which makes our natural satellite up here exceptionally large however that illusion happens frequently when the full moon skims the horizon the super moon that shines down on us later on November 14th really won't look that much different from other full moons so we'll talk about the whole what is a super moon and how does that fit in in a second but in general when you're photographing the moon there's a couple things that go into it depends on what kind of picture that you want to make and if you want something that's sumed in with a lot of detail probably against a black sky focal length becomes very important and the moon is very tricky to get with various focal lengths because in order to do that you're going to actually need to have a focal length lens that is probably a little more than most mortals can afford and the closest I ever got to this was a couple months ago I had a sony rx10 mark 3 on loan to me and this is a kind of all-in-one lens camera they call it a bridge style camera and I did review on that I'll link it up at the end of this video but the cool thing about it is because it has a one inch sensor it has a zoom lens that has a focal length equivalent from 24 millimeters all the way to 600 millimeters and so I did a lot of photographing help the moon I had that camera because it really allowed you to get up close between that and the resolution and you could do just a little bit of cropping but you get a lot of really nice detail exposure is really not that difficult you do have to manually expose because the cameras or the meter that's built into the camera is going to want to split the difference between the extreme dark sky and extreme bright moon so you do want to go into manual mode to really be able to dial that down and get it right but it is possible I did a lot of still photography of that as well as some time lapse stuff and it was a lot of fun to do but focal length is can be a problem and I think again timing and where that moon is going to be in the sky is a big part of that so if it's lower and closer to the horizon it's going to appear much larger the higher it gets it's going to appear further away I mean this is an optical illusion it's not actually what's happening but it's how we perceive our view of the moon through the atmosphere so timing is essential the other thing you can do is if you do want to long focal length and what I will probably do as part of this is I'll use an APC sized sensor camera and then I'll use a lens adapter and use one of my old Nikon or Canon lenses that's 300 millimeters long and that's not going to get you up to 600 millimeters or further but it will get a little more into the ballpark if you have a high enough resolution again you can crop in just a little bit to get that right you know when all else fails there's other things too a little over a year ago we had what was called the Blood Moon and the Blood Moon was interesting because it involved a time sequence there was the Earth's passing through there and it was actually very beautiful I was living in my old building at that time and all my neighbors were all up on the roof and we were all photographing this thing and I really didn't have equipment to get close enough to this because it was a little bit high in the sky where we were from Dallas and so one of my neighbors actually had a telescope and I had made this image and literally this was done on my iPhone I start my iPhone into the telescope viewfinder and so you know whatever works I guess and if you're super nerdy and into astronomy there are ways that you can connect a DSLR a mirrorless camera to a really nice telescope to if you're really into that thing most people don't take it to that extreme the other thing to consider is time and when you are going to be photographing the moon and if you do it too early when the Sun still up it's hard to see the moon obviously because you have reflected sunlight competing against daylight if you wait too late it's hard to get if you want to incorporate landscape or any elements on the ground into your composition it's harder to do because the exposure the moon is so bright it's reflecting sunlight and so the best times to do this are usually either a dawn or dusk depending on where you are in the world and where the moon is going to be and when it's going to be at full and so when you do this and here's this is a time-lapse that I shot when I had the sony rx10 and you can get some interesting effects if you shoot a little bit earlier to allow a little bit of light in the sky to come through with that now the reason I'm mentioning all this and I think this is actually kind of cool because I think this would make an interesting example for the photo assignments that we're doing is part of the show where we're doing 10 different images and variations on those images try to approach this 10 different way so this will be challenging because it's kind of hard your one vantage point the moon's a long way away and you may have only so much landscape to deal with and how far can you move before the moon has changed position I mean there's a lot that goes into it so I'll probably do it for photo assignments in fact I will do it for photo sense I think it's going to be an interesting challenge so this is the these things are what pushes is photographers and remember we're giving ourselves permission to fail 10 images a lot for something like this but the whole idea is that maybe you'll have one in here that is something you've never done before that works and it comes out and it's the right thing to do so that's what you want to look at it as and the last thing I want to mention about this in terms of the supermoon the term super moon is a term that's been used mainly by the media in recent years it doesn't go very far back and it's mainly used to hype events that we have and I don't want to diminish that because this is the closest it's been since 1948 apparently and it won't be this close again until what is it 20:34 November of twenty thirty four so you know it's an interesting event but again because of that illusion is to where the moon is in the sky and how big you're going to perceive it most people will go out to look at a super moon and if you don't know what you're looking for and you don't know you don't have any point of reference for what that looks like on a regular full moon it may not look that much different and most people will just simply perceive it to be that in fact if you look at the difference in this image is also from space calm this is what a supermoon is in relationship to a regular full moon and you can see that it is significantly larger but again if you don't know what you're looking for don't have a context for it then you may not notice the difference in fact it's interesting that article goes on to say it's like comparing a six inch 16 inch pizza to a 15 inch pizza it's larger but unless you've had that Pizza bunch you probably won't notice the difference so anyway some things to think about and like I said I'll be shooting this and I'll see if I can bring you guys along for the ride on here and if you enjoyed this video please remember to like it share it and it's always subscribe to the art of photography so you'll always be up to date until the next time I'll see you guys then lateron Monday you were going to see what is referred to as a super moon and I want to talk about that and I want to talk about photographing the moon as well I don't know if this is something you guys are planning on doing or not but I think it's going to be quite interesting so this is according to space.com and they mentioned that on Monday November 14th at 6:15 a.m. Eastern Standard Time the moon will arrive at its closest point to the earth in 2016 this will be a distance of two hundred and twenty one thousand five hundred and twenty-four miles away this distance which is measured from the center of the earth to the center of the moon is within eighty five miles of the moon's closest possible approach to earth to be sure this is an extreme perigee and so what this means is if you've ever photographed the moon and you know kind of what the optical illusion that the moon does is when it's near the horizon it's going to look really big and this is going to be a super moon so this is extremely big and I think it's also important and worth noting on here and they talked about this when the moon appears near the horizon when it is rising and so this will be just before 5:00 p.m. on November 14th that's when the famous moon illusion will kick in which makes our natural satellite up here exceptionally large however that illusion happens frequently when the full moon skims the horizon the super moon that shines down on us later on November 14th really won't look that much different from other full moons so we'll talk about the whole what is a super moon and how does that fit in in a second but in general when you're photographing the moon there's a couple things that go into it depends on what kind of picture that you want to make and if you want something that's sumed in with a lot of detail probably against a black sky focal length becomes very important and the moon is very tricky to get with various focal lengths because in order to do that you're going to actually need to have a focal length lens that is probably a little more than most mortals can afford and the closest I ever got to this was a couple months ago I had a sony rx10 mark 3 on loan to me and this is a kind of all-in-one lens camera they call it a bridge style camera and I did review on that I'll link it up at the end of this video but the cool thing about it is because it has a one inch sensor it has a zoom lens that has a focal length equivalent from 24 millimeters all the way to 600 millimeters and so I did a lot of photographing help the moon I had that camera because it really allowed you to get up close between that and the resolution and you could do just a little bit of cropping but you get a lot of really nice detail exposure is really not that difficult you do have to manually expose because the cameras or the meter that's built into the camera is going to want to split the difference between the extreme dark sky and extreme bright moon so you do want to go into manual mode to really be able to dial that down and get it right but it is possible I did a lot of still photography of that as well as some time lapse stuff and it was a lot of fun to do but focal length is can be a problem and I think again timing and where that moon is going to be in the sky is a big part of that so if it's lower and closer to the horizon it's going to appear much larger the higher it gets it's going to appear further away I mean this is an optical illusion it's not actually what's happening but it's how we perceive our view of the moon through the atmosphere so timing is essential the other thing you can do is if you do want to long focal length and what I will probably do as part of this is I'll use an APC sized sensor camera and then I'll use a lens adapter and use one of my old Nikon or Canon lenses that's 300 millimeters long and that's not going to get you up to 600 millimeters or further but it will get a little more into the ballpark if you have a high enough resolution again you can crop in just a little bit to get that right you know when all else fails there's other things too a little over a year ago we had what was called the Blood Moon and the Blood Moon was interesting because it involved a time sequence there was the Earth's passing through there and it was actually very beautiful I was living in my old building at that time and all my neighbors were all up on the roof and we were all photographing this thing and I really didn't have equipment to get close enough to this because it was a little bit high in the sky where we were from Dallas and so one of my neighbors actually had a telescope and I had made this image and literally this was done on my iPhone I start my iPhone into the telescope viewfinder and so you know whatever works I guess and if you're super nerdy and into astronomy there are ways that you can connect a DSLR a mirrorless camera to a really nice telescope to if you're really into that thing most people don't take it to that extreme the other thing to consider is time and when you are going to be photographing the moon and if you do it too early when the Sun still up it's hard to see the moon obviously because you have reflected sunlight competing against daylight if you wait too late it's hard to get if you want to incorporate landscape or any elements on the ground into your composition it's harder to do because the exposure the moon is so bright it's reflecting sunlight and so the best times to do this are usually either a dawn or dusk depending on where you are in the world and where the moon is going to be and when it's going to be at full and so when you do this and here's this is a time-lapse that I shot when I had the sony rx10 and you can get some interesting effects if you shoot a little bit earlier to allow a little bit of light in the sky to come through with that now the reason I'm mentioning all this and I think this is actually kind of cool because I think this would make an interesting example for the photo assignments that we're doing is part of the show where we're doing 10 different images and variations on those images try to approach this 10 different way so this will be challenging because it's kind of hard your one vantage point the moon's a long way away and you may have only so much landscape to deal with and how far can you move before the moon has changed position I mean there's a lot that goes into it so I'll probably do it for photo assignments in fact I will do it for photo sense I think it's going to be an interesting challenge so this is the these things are what pushes is photographers and remember we're giving ourselves permission to fail 10 images a lot for something like this but the whole idea is that maybe you'll have one in here that is something you've never done before that works and it comes out and it's the right thing to do so that's what you want to look at it as and the last thing I want to mention about this in terms of the supermoon the term super moon is a term that's been used mainly by the media in recent years it doesn't go very far back and it's mainly used to hype events that we have and I don't want to diminish that because this is the closest it's been since 1948 apparently and it won't be this close again until what is it 20:34 November of twenty thirty four so you know it's an interesting event but again because of that illusion is to where the moon is in the sky and how big you're going to perceive it most people will go out to look at a super moon and if you don't know what you're looking for and you don't know you don't have any point of reference for what that looks like on a regular full moon it may not look that much different and most people will just simply perceive it to be that in fact if you look at the difference in this image is also from space calm this is what a supermoon is in relationship to a regular full moon and you can see that it is significantly larger but again if you don't know what you're looking for don't have a context for it then you may not notice the difference in fact it's interesting that article goes on to say it's like comparing a six inch 16 inch pizza to a 15 inch pizza it's larger but unless you've had that Pizza bunch you probably won't notice the difference so anyway some things to think about and like I said I'll be shooting this and I'll see if I can bring you guys along for the ride on here and if you enjoyed this video please remember to like it share it and it's always subscribe to the art of photography so you'll always be up to date until the next time I'll see you guys then later\n"