A photographer, at far right, is shooting a moonlit nightscape at Driftwood Beach, at Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. The nearly Full Moon, here partly obscured by clouds at left above Vimy Peak, provides the illumination. The sky is blue with moonlight but contains stars, plus bright Mars and Saturn above the Prince of Wales Hotel. This is a stitch of 8 panels (all about 6 second exposures), plus two additional panels with shorter exposures (1 second), blended in to provide more detail in the bright moonlit clouds and glitter path from the Moon. All with the 24mm lens at f/2.8 and Nikon D750 at ISO 1600. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
The rising Full Moon of April 22, 2016, an apogee Moon and the smallest and most distant Full Moon of 2016. Here., it rises over the Pacific from the east coast of New South Wales, Australia, so this is an austral Moon and appears “upside down” compared to northern hemisphere views. The effect of the glitter path on the ocean is from waves reflecting the light of the Moon. This is a two-exposure composite: a long exposure for the sky and ocean, and a short exposure for the disk of the Moon itself, to preserve some detail in the disk, specifically the mare areas to show the face of the Moon and not an overexposed white disk. Both with the 135mm telephoto and Canon 6D, from Woolgoolga, NSW.
The apogee Full Moon of April 22, 2016 rising over the Pacific Ocean and lighting the waters with a golden glitter path of reflected moonlight. I shot this from the Woolgoolga Headlands viewpoint, with the 135mm telephoto and Canon 6D. This is a high dynamic range stack of 5 exposures to comrpess the range in brightness. Even so, the Moon itself is still overexposed.
