Early yesterday morning, I walked out of my house and captured this shot of the full moon. The full moon this month is primarily known as the Worm Moon, but has a lot of other names including the Lenten Moon, the Sugar Moon, the Goose Moon, and the Wind Strong Moon.
Although I love to photograph a full moon like this, I really do need to find a way to integrate some cool background elements in the shot. I haven’t yet been able to scout a location where I can catch the moon rising, but that is a future goal. In this case there was no pre-planning involved.
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Beautiful, Mike! It makes what I saw with my little eyes so much more spectacular!
Wonderful! I’ve just seen several local photographers’ shots of this moon, but I have no idea why it is called by any of those names.
I saw the moon last night but no worms yet, Mike. 🙂 Lots of robins back but they are dining on alternative food sources so far. Was it really that dark?
It’s hard for worms to emerge when the ground is still frozen. 🙂 For shots of the moon, I go totally manual and deliberately underexpose, which makes the sky look darker than it actually is. If I don’t do that, I lose most of the details of the moon.
Do you spot meter? I usually get nice bright moons and dark skies. I prefer though to be able to see some of the landscape.
I hope you can find a nice spot to shoot the rising or setting moon. The Washington Monument (or many of the other D.C. monuments) gets done a lot but is still worth it for your own enjoyment.
I will spot meter sometimes for things like Great Egrets, Steve, but tend not to do so for landscapes, which are usually unplanned shots for me. I usually dial in a setting in manual mode and adjust it as necessary. I may have to check out The Photographer’s Ephemeris that you mentioned in one of your linked postings, if I really get a desire to shoot a moonlight landscape. (I suspect that I would use a tripod in such a situation and consider compositing two images as well.)
Nice Mike! Always fun to “shoot” for the Moon!
Shoot for the Moon—love it, Reed.
About the time we saw this moon we also saw whatever the call the mud tunnels that nightcrawlers make at the Nature Center. Perhaps that is how it got the name? I love your blog. It is like going outdoors which I do not want to do today as high gusts of wind are moving in.