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2020 - August - The Moon

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Rules that are always applicable are as follows:

  1. One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest.
  2. Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you.
  3. All entries should include a line of text with the location, subject, and date (specificity is up to you).
  4. Refrain from posting sensitive/debatable content
  5. Only upvotes count towards winning.

Rules for August are as follows:

  1. The Moon - Picture must include the moon.
  2. The contest will last the whole month of August and to be clear, we use UTC, just like the site itself.
  3. There is no constraint on when the photo must have been taken.

Suggest a theme for the next contest.

  1. Leave a single comment below in the format THEME - ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTION

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Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 4 years ago

I'm looking forward to this. I love night-sky photos but my attempts there are always poor.

Hueco‭ wrote over 4 years ago

@MonicaCellio ... if only there was some website where you could ask questions to improve your night sky photography >_<

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 4 years ago

@Hueco true. I feel like such a clueless beginner next to the folks here, but I could ask anyway. I mean, I'm using a cell phone...

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago

@Monica: Cell phone cameras have come a long way from the toys they were just a decade ago. However, sky photography usually requires careful manual settings, which are often not available on something dumbed down with low intimidation factor being the highest design criterion. Asking about night sky photography with dumbed down equipment might make a good question here.

Peter Taylor‭ wrote over 4 years ago

You're not going to get a good photo of Luna with a mobile phone because their optics are configured for wide angle shots, but you might be able to get a nice landscape with the moon in the background.

Peter Taylor‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Topic suggestion: Fun with perspective - Photos which use perspective to do something interesting or amusing

10 Rep‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@Peter Taylor I have to disagree. I once got a decent photo of the moon with a iPhone 5. OFC, it's not the best, but you can get okay photos. But DSLR is my goto :)