Photographing the moon- FMP

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 I decided to photograph the pink super moon that was happening on 26th April 2021.

I organised borrowing a Canon 250d camera with 600mm lens from my college and taught myself how to use it- notes shown below. I feel that learning the basics behind a camera and photography has expanded my skillset and set out new possibilities within my creative practice. I can now independently use a camera when required for an outcome and this has expanded my ideas for future projects as they can now involve my own photography.


Below is a documentation of my experiences whilst photographing the moon. I found it a greatly inspiring process as I got to see the subject Ive been studying in such detail and depth.



This is the contact sheet for all the photographs I took. If I were to do this again, I'd take more photographs so I could use the editing technique of layering several photographs over each other to create more detail and clarity in the image.



These were the 4 photographs I chose as the final pieces. They were the best quality, least shaky and showed varying positions of the moon in the frame.





I am extremely satisfied with the outcome of this project. I feel as though I've gained a new skill as well as valuable photographs that I can use in future projects. I now have my own photographs that I can use and own and this has opened up a range of possibilities.

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