Blue Moon 2012 - Another View

I had so much fun taking photos of Friday's blue moon over Lake Lanier!  Steve and I took dinner out to the lake and I spent time playing with exposures and composition, just to see what my camera and I can do.

Although it appears that the moon doesn't move very quickly, you don't need a very long exposure before it goes out of shape.  Knowing this, I experimented with different shutter speeds and found that at 2sec the moon is slightly oblong and by 4sec the distortion is very noticeable.

Here's another shot, taken at 0.5sec; zoomed closer and sitting in a soft bed of clouds.

And below is a shot taken about 10 minutes later, with a 15sec exposure.  The sky is a lot lighter but the moon is completely blown out and so has lost all definition in the craters.  In addition, it's creating a definite smudge across the image as it moves.