We watched Despicable Me over the holidays, I had forgotten how much it made me laugh.. The central plot is our hero (yes he is a hero) wants to “Steel the moon”.
As I walked along the seafront just before the first sunrise of 2024, I looked up at the moon, thought about the film and it made me smile. It is just a constant we take for granted, having its every day impact on us and the seas. So I raised my camera to take a snap.
Along with the GFX, I was carrying my new X-H2 with the 150-600 mounted…
Probably to many of you the results were are “yeah ok, that’s the moon” but lets just take a step back and look at the EXIF..
I shot in RAW and ran it through PureRAW. So that’s a handheld shot at 3200iso just before sunrise that crops to a useable 3000sq pixels.
Here is a 1:1 crop (screenshot).
As I say, many of you probably think “So?”
Off the shelf crop sensor body. Off the shelf lens. No doublers or extenders. 30 seconds post-processing on a MAC; You can see I had finished this edit less than an hour after I had taken it and that includes waiting for the (non-existent) sunrise then walking home.
I have only pointed my camera at the moon a few times (for eclipses and suchlike) but on this evidence I think I will be making more effort to look for objects to photograph in front of this rock that has such an influence on us.
This all started with me going out for the first sunrise of 2024, so how was that?
Well, I did not see the sun but I made this image on the gfx50r and Laowa 17mm..
Until next time.. Happy New Year…
J xx
Julie Edwards-X 