Thursday, December 11, 2008

Lunar Cosmos

Been doing a lot of lunar photography lately because the skies have been amazingly clear these past few weeks.

Ironically, it wasn't until tonight's sky clouded up that things got interesting. The cloud cover coupled with the light from the near full moon created the illusion of a stellar dust cloud.

This is an HDR photo. The moon was exposed at f/5.6 @ 1/40s and the clouds at f/5.6 @ 1/4s (all ISO 100). Nikon D80 + 70-300mm f/4-5.6 G lens.