Thursday, 25th February 2010
Land of the Rising Moon
by Jim Patterson
As the moon rose, I got low to the ground and positioned my camera to capture the moon as it got pinched between the arch and the rock below which helped create the burst. I tried lots of settings, and as this was my first time trying such a style of photography, I can't honestly say ISO 800 was the best choice. The D300 is ok at this ISO, but some liberal noise reduction on the sky was used.
Nikon D300
Tokina 10-17mm fisheye @ 10mm
30sec @ f8, ISO 800
light painted with red LED flashlight, No HDR
Jim Patterson
Website: Photos
Land of the Rising Moon by Jim Patterson was photo of the day on Thursday, 25th February 2010. It is tagged Moon, Night. You can leave a comment below.
25 Comments
Jeff Swanson
Nice work, Jim!
Mesquite
Beautiful!
mike
A very nice scene.
paul whitton
fully just looks like a sculpture! isn’t to world amazing!
Anurag
Sublime!
Bertie
Stunning! Simply Love it!
Pauline Jones
Cool picture; well done.
Chris Boynton
great art piece – well done
Neily Curtin
Well done, good planning resulting in nice picture.
Bettina Schwarz
A really appealing creation!! Nicely done indeed !!
JRKyle
One great capture here Jim…
I have done this too… Did it years ago as a cave explorer. I “Painted” the cave walls with light as by ‘scanning’ the areas that I wanted to be lit. I do this now with high powered portable lamps (battery powered) on trees and land-scapes. The weather must be cool as to have no bugs flying about the frame.
This photograph of your is one fine bit of work.
Wanda Krack
Landscape light painting. It’s beautiful! Well thought-out!
Ellen Empson
Exceptional artistic creativity here, well done!!!!
Technical detail right on spot!
Renee
The sun is peaking in at you and saying hello! Excellent shot!
Marie Dunphy Harding
You captured a great moment, the stars are visible, too! Nice work.
Adam
Love the contrast. Great shot!
Grete
Fantastic shot! Nature never ceases to amaze. You’ve captured it surprisingly! Congratulations and greetings
Ursula
At first glance it looked to me like a hand, with fingers bent and the moon was in the cup of the index finger and bent-in thumb. Or was it just me seeing this?? Nice shot Jim.
Jim Patteson
Thanks everyone! And Ursula, I think it looks like a hand, too.
Ken Bernstein
to Jim Patterson:
Sumptuous sculpture shot. Joshua Tree is a magical place! It is one of a few places in CA that has some of the enchantment of New Mexico.
I would love to see more of your shots on Joshua Tree. Do you have a web site I can visit?
Ken
Su
If you look under Jims name at the top ‘photos’
thats the link to his flikr site, some real good ones on there too.
Su
Sorry did mean to say what a clever shot this is well worth the wait for that moonburst.
Katherine Lee Strassburg
I agree with Ursula that one can see human body parts here, but I was thinking more of the dance group Pilobolus who contort their merging bodies into amazing pictures or letters of the alphabet. Lovely composition, and I love the rich colors.
Sparts
Yeah, very well done. Most interseting shot I’ve seen on here for a while
Yves
That is a striking image Jim! This technique is used more and more, but I think your result is really particular and beautiful. You have shaped the 3-dimensional quality of the rock with your light, while often this type of image can look rather flat. Congrats!