[Jim Dockery]

Post yer best moon shots. I love shots with the moon, but have found them quite hard to capture, esp. back in the days of film when I almost always over exposed it. Working in a darkroom I did a double exposure to place a properly exposed moon (taken with a 200mm lens on a cold winter night) into the dark sky on another picture, but of course that was fake. With digital I often take two exposures, layer them in Photoshop, then copy and paste the properly exposed moon over the overexposed version (where the mountain/foreground is properly exposed) and blend it in. Here is one of my old favorites taken on film near Chamonix France. The overexposed moon isn't so offensive since it is relatively small. This wall is one of the great north faces of the alps and was perhaps the finest climb of my life.

North face Grande Jorrasse

This is digital, but before I was blending exposures.

Gothic Basin

Big Bear-Three Fingers Traverse

[Scanfield]

Not my photo but this is one a friend of mine captured. http://jimbryantphotography.blogspot.com/2010/05/sometimes-you-just-have-to-stop.html

[marta]

Moon shots are cool. Here are a couple of mine that are kinda decent. Nothing as spectacular as your photos, Jim.

February Eclipse

Richmond beach - Moon and bonfire glow

Little Tahoma from Burroughs Trail

[touron]

I believe I took this with my Kodak Disc camera.

Yellowstone

[jd_hiker]

Moon over Tipsoo Lake, Mount Rainier National Park

Moon over Tipsoo Lake, Mount Rainier National Park

But I liked the mistake I made one time

Moon over Tipsoo Lake, Mount Rainier National Park

[Backpacker Joe]

jd, what kind of exposure times are you using for those?

[NikonHiker]

You're right the moon is a tough one to expose properly so I usually just say forget it and use it as an interesting light source.

[Gil]

Needed a special lens to get this shot.

rockscape test

[Jim Dockery]

JD, that mistake with the star filter is cool - don't think I've ever seen that effect before. Nikon, I remember being impressed with the colors from the mixed light sources on that last one when you first posted it. Gil, is that an interfeared lens that cuts through clouds?

[Schroder]

My problem here is I had the ISO set high from some earlier shots and I didn't set it back down so they're grainy.

[Little Fish]

Interesting topic. I do not have moon pictures as fantastic as all of yours. The b&w is scanned from our old slide, so it looks a little grainy.

Evening moon

Moon reflection

Snowy night camping at Canyon de Chelly-1

[jd_hiker]

Jim, no star filter used for the effect. That is why I called it a mistake. I exposed the shot at f/22 for 30 sec while holding a 2-stop grad ND filter that I moved while the camera exposed. I had never had the star effect happen like that and still wonder if it resulted from my movement of the ND filter or how the light entered the lens. But here is another shot at 32 sec and getting the same star effect. I think it is the way the light hits the lens.

Coastal Moon

BPJ, the second was 1/6 sec at f/22 ISO 100 with a reverse grad-ND filter. The first is a crop from a 20 vertical shot pano that showed too much effects of the multiple shots in the sky.

Autumn comes to Tipsoo Lake

Nikon, I really like the lighting on the second one. The red gives it such a great feel. One more I took along the coast:

Fishing for the Moon

[jcocci]

Here's a couple from this past New Years eve at the top of Crystal Mtn ski area. Moon os over exposed but I still like the shots.

[silence]

what a great thread .. every summer i chase the moon .. it's my obsession .. though i don't have any really great ones .. still it's fun there's so many good ones here .. nice work everyone .. gil i love that rockscape .. very creative ..

Mountain Dawn

Moonrise over Ruth

Moonrise over Inner Constance

Moonrise over the Suiattle

Moonrise in the North Cascades

[Jim Dockery]

silence, those are sweet - the composition of moonrise over the suiattle is perfect. That is one of the hard things about shooting the moon, we often just take what we can get and haven't planned for it by setting ourselves up and waiting in the perfect location to frame it up perfectly. Here is one of my best where I tried to do that - taken from a couple blocks from my house in Lake Stevens.

Three Fingers - Big Bear Moonrise