I got up early yesterday morning to try to capture a sunrise here in Paris. The sunrise was pretty much a bust, but on the way to my location, I captured this image of a full moon over some shadowy Parisian roofs.
It is always tricky to take a shot of a full moon—the camera wants to overexpose the moon, leaving a glowing white circle. In order to get the moon looking right. I usually have to underexpose the image by a couple of stops, which leaves the content of the rest of the subject barely visible. I hope that you can just see the curve of the domed roof to the left of the moon and a roof with some chimney pipes just below the moon.
I was hoping to have more time to take additional photos, but as I made adjustments to my camera, the moon disappeared in the clouds and quickly dropped lower on the horizon.
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Mike Powell 
That’s really good, Mike. I try so often to get halfway decent pictures of the moon. I’ve had every kind of bad result you can have.
My default position when I am at home is to use my 150-600mm zoom lens at 600mm so that the moon fills a good part of the frame. Then all that is left is a black sky and that is ok if it is underexposed.
Wow!
Looks good, Mile!
MIKE! I mean! 🙂
Thanks. My fingers don’t always cooperate either. 🙂
Gorgeous deep blue sky and brilliant moon, what a contrast! No problem seeing all those extra details. Spectacular shot!
Thanks, Liz. I so desperately want to see sunrises and sunsets that it’s a miracle that I get any sleep at all.
Beautiful👍🏻
Fantastic!