For my last Sublime Sunday post at the beginning of the month, I shared some rainbow photos. This time around I thought I’d share some of the bazillion photos I took of the recent full moon on October 20th, 2021 and run a couple of them through the Deep Dream Generator again – hence the title, Magical Moon and Double Dream.
Oh, and my usual FYI about my specs – these were taken in my Durham, NH yard with my Nikon and tripod. All were resized, then cleaned up a bit with PicMonkey, mostly adjusting the exposure and sharpness.
Now for the photos…
A Sublime Sunday Magical Moon and Double Dream
First, the magical moon…
1. Given how cloudy the sky had been for most of the day, I didn’t hold out hope that I’d be able to get any shots. However around 7:30pm ish (according to the time stamp on my camera & it just occurred to me I should probably check to see if the clock is accurate) my husband looked out the living room window and said, “Hon, you should check out the moon.” Two seconds later I was outside taking this shot.
2. It’s really hard this early in the evening to get a clear shot, as the moon is still way down behind the trees. But I thought this zoomed in shot was cool looking.
3. Zoomed out a bit more for this one, then went back inside to wait for the moon to get a bit higher in the sky.
4. I only meant to wait a couple hours, but this shot ended up being four hours later. As you can see, the clouds were still hanging around.
5. I didn’t think I’d be able to get a clear shot of la luna…
6. … but for a brief moment, the clouds parted enough for me to zoom in and get this one….
7. … and a moment later, she got shy again and hid behind the clouds.
8. While I haven’t figured out yet how to balance getting the details of the moon when zooming out to get the magical sky around it, I still like how it came out.
9. It looks more like an eye in the sky on camera than it did in the actual sky.
10. And the white clouds mixed with some clear sky and bits of dark clouds made for some cool patterns.
11. I did an extra bump with the exposure in this one so the cool patterns of sky, clouds, and trees would show up a bit better.
12. I almost prefer to have a cloudy sky when the moon is full because it makes everything so magical looking.
13. Like this bit of magicalness.
14. That space to the upper left of the moon almost looks like a giant heart in the sky.
15. More cool patterns.
16. And even though the moon was pretty high in the sky at this point, I was able to walk down the yard a bit to get some shots of her peeking out behind some branches.
17. A frame made of branches and fall leaves.
18. It looks like the moon is resting on the branch – she must be tired after her climb in the sky.
19. Zoomed out a bit and changed the exposure.
20. A bit more zoom and I figured this would be a good place to leave off for today. I still have almost 30 more shots (of the 144 I took) that I’d like to share another day soon.
Now the double dream…
DDG one, created using picture number 6 – I called this one, “Starry Moon”
DDG two, created using picture number 18 – I called this one, “Autumn Moon”
Hope you enjoyed the Magical Moon and Double Dream & that everyone had a Sublime Sunday!
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The dream moons came out wonderfully. I particularly like the star chart one.