I was sitting home late this afternoon, mulling the day, the keeping of Nathaniel, our 24th anniversary yesterday, knowing tonight was thefirst full moon of 2012. I decided sort of on the spur of the moment after listening to the Moody Blues Voices in the Sky on Pandora
to head up to White Springs. I checked the map to see where the moon possibly would rise and when. It was to rise at 6:38 so by 5:15 I was loaded and headed for the Suwannee River at the 41 Bridge. Arriving, the construction crew working on the railroad bridge were packing up, so I waited a moment until they departed and crossed the tracks, walking upstream a way.
I alternated with the Nikon D5000 in HDR three exposure mode and the Canon S95 on a Jobo tripod. The Nikon soon ran out of memory and as usual, I was without a spare. I headed back to the bridge to wait the moon. It grew dark and cloudy, but finally the moon came over the pines, further to the East than I had anticipated, not over the river as I had hoped.
I took several fifteen second exposures and worked on trying to get the moon underexposed, the rest of the scene exposed. I did not succeed in the effort. I also found when I downloaded, that the shadow of the bridges cast a distinct straight shadow which confused the composition, making it look double exposed. Next time out, I will go for a location without the bridge casting such a shadow.
I am going to try next outing to construct a little dodger, to place in front of the lens where the moon is, holding it over that spot until just one or less seconds. The moon is bright as daylight, at about 125 sec or faster. Over-all, just a nice time out on the river all alone.
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