EXPERT INSIGHT DOUBLE EXPOSURES

Tom M says… The moonrise shot was created with the in-camera double exposure feature. To get a crisp shot of the moon in your image you’ll need to take two separate exposures. Our main exposure was 15 secs to capture enough light on our foreground; not only would this cause the moon to blow out, that’s long enough to capture the movement of the moon, so it would be egg-shaped too! We photographed the base exposure with a 24-70mmm lens, then switched to the 70-200mm for the moon, to make it bigger and more dramatic in the frame, and shot it at 1/50 sec. The moon was also actually off to the side of the frame, so in order to position it where we wanted relative to the lighthouse, I moved the focus point to an empty space in the sky in the first shot as a marker. Then positioned the moon on this focus point in the second shot, so it was in the correct place as the exposures were merged.