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Last full moon of 2012
December’s full moon sets over the Gore Range in Summit County, Colorado.
FRISCO —Even though I got skunked on the full moon rise this month, I did make it out early Saturday to watch it set over the Gore Range. With temps well below zero, it wasn’t easy to work the camera controls and I had a hard time changing exposure settings while trying to keep up with the changing light, because the Earth and moon never stop their graceful dance. When you see a picture of the orb hanging in the sky, it looks static, but things certainly seem to speed up when you’re trying to capture it with a camera. And there are only a few minutes when the background and foreground light, and the moonlight, are balanced enough to get details in the entire exposure. I’m also amazed at how much the light changes in a short time. The images in this set were all taken in a half-hour span.
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A gorgeous, chilly morning along Oro Grande, in Dillon, Colorado.
Just before the moon dropped behind the Gore Range, the upper snow-covered slopes lit up with morning alpenglow.
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And finally, a completely unedited shot, straight from the camera. At this point, there was still a bit too much contrast between the moon, the sky and the mountains to be able to capture details in the face of the moon. Even underexposing by several stops didn’t too the trick, so the moon ended up as a featureless disk.
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the moon was still well up when i took the snowmobile up to the vista, small and bright. but when i drove back down at 6:45 or so, the moon was huge, white, and silvery-a finger’s width before setting over Peak 6 1/2. no camera…
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:05:02 +0000 To: mattkranephoto@hotmail.com