Moon Over My House is a composition created with my Mamiya 645 Pro using Kodak 100VS film. It was a full moon night and the sky was clear. I used a 55mm lens to do the base shot. without advancing the film, I replaced the 55MM with a 300mm lens to shoot the moon. The base shot was a 2 minute exposure at f/8, while the moon shot was 1/125 second at f/8.
The full moon is actually 1/12 the light of the sun which makes it rather bright in the night sky. If you compose a shot of the moon alone such that the result captures the detail of the moon surface, everything else will be dark. Whenever you see a high quality composition like this with the moon with surface detail, it will be double exposure.
Moon Over My House is on display in the UArt Open Exhibition at University Art in San Jose. It was one of two photographs in 50 pieces accepted from 300 submissions.
Experience the Fine Art of Roosevelt Bynum Photography this Saturday, 9/20/2008 at The Taste of Saratoga and Sunday at the 32nd Almaden Valley Art & Wine Festival
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