Photographers Moonrise Is A Short Movie Inspiration To Anyone Who Wants To Shoot The Moon
Oct 5, 2015
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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New Zealand based astrophotographer Mark Gee (previously, and here) has quite a creative take on the Super Moon we had last week. I mean, we all shot the Super Moon (didn’t we) but Mark documented the shooting of the Super Moon with a few of his photographer friends, taking the whole thing to a new level of Meta.
In order not to miss the actual super moon itself, Mark made the movie one day prior to the Super Moon day, but that had very little impact on how the moon looks like in the movie.
The movie shows a gorgeous shot of the moon rising with several photographers gathering up to photograph the events. It starts with the photographers arriving at the scene, unloading their gear, doing their thing and finally tearing up. This entire 2 minutes scene is happening in front of the most gorgeous moon you’ve ever laid eyes on.
Following the simple rule of Big Lens = Big Moon, Mark shot this movie with a 600mm lens and a 1.4x extender (which equates to using a 840mm lens), standing about 1.5km away from the photographers and directing them via a walkie talkie.
If you are interested in learning how to shoot the moon, Mark has a great tutorial on the subject, going from gear through composition, camera settings and planning. Mark heavily uses PhotoPills to plan his shoots, and nail the location where both a top of a mountain and the moon are in the same frame.
[Photographers Moonrise | Mark Gee via slrlounge]
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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2 responses to “Photographers Moonrise Is A Short Movie Inspiration To Anyone Who Wants To Shoot The Moon”
Great video. Also great to the moon rising the ‘correct’ way. The way we are used to in the Southern Hemisphere. When you see the moon (or sunrise) filmed from the northern hemisphere-it just looks weird….
actualy, looking at the moon rising this way looks weird for me … ;-)
but I see your point ;)