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Here is my fresh shot on SuperMoon over Oslo. A77 + Sony 70-400mm, handhold, a fast PP, no crop.

We had cloudy sky all day long, but it opened up at evening, just enough for SuperMoon shot :)

 

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Doubt it, it doesn't go dark there at the moment ;)
 
Better get out your fine measuring calipers. A 'Supermoon' is only about 7% larger than an average full moon on an ordinary night. Here's the difference:

Supermoon vs. average moon

Supermoon vs. average moon

As Sky and Telescope like to explain it, If this is a "Supermoon," I guess Superman can only bench-press 108 pounds if I can bench-press 100.
 
linslus said:
Wasn't it 14%?
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No. It's about 14% bigger than the 'Wimpymoon', when the moon is farthest from us. If nobody told us about them, we would probably never even notice the gradual cyclical transitions from Wimpymoon to average moon to Supermoon and back again.
 
still raining and the moon will be rising in about 30 minutes so no luck tonight. Even though I didn't get the results I wanted from last night, I'm still glad I was out in the lovely evening :)

great to see other peoples supermoons all the same :)
 
...therefore, I only have last year's a moon shot.

 
linslus said:
linslus wrote:
linslus said:
Gary Eickmeier wrote:

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That's a super nice super moon!
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Well thanks, but the picture is almost total BS. Yes, I took both parts of it, but it is a composite with the moon enlarged. And a lousy composite at that. I will work on it more tonight.

I was set up at a certain point where I expected to be able to see the moon, when lo, there it was somewhere else. I had taken the foreground pix already, so I just planted the tripod again and zoomed in on just the moon and shot a few exposures until it started going up behind some black clouds!

I think the Super Moon hype was uncalled for and misleading. I have seen better. I think that this was good practice, and I can go back and try again just about any full moon.

So I suppose this makes us all lunatics?

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Gary Eickmeier
 
Sam_Oslo said:
Sam_Oslo wrote:

Here is my fresh shot on SuperMoon over Oslo. A77 + Sony 70-400mm, handhold, a fast PP, no crop.

We had cloudy sky all day long, but it opened up at evening, just enough for SuperMoon shot :)
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Beautiful colors -- very nice!
 
Gary Eickmeier said:
Gary Eickmeier wrote:

Yes, but I think we have a special exposure problem with the moon - must show the detail on the surface so that it doesn't look like the sun!
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Cant you use center weight metering or spot metering? I don't know the alpha line as right now i shoot Panasonic but have been hanging around the Sony forum learning about the a77 :-) I have a couple supermoon shots in mt gallery but didn't want to post them here as it wasn't a Sony.
 
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