Full Moon, Sunshine Beach.

[Maris]

Full Moon, Sunshine Beach
Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.5cm X 15.0cm, from a 4x5 Tri-X negative
exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens and #25 red filter.
Night will fall but the moon says darkness will not entirely prevail.

[Mick Fagan]

Almost an abstract image in disguise, reeeeeeeealy nice.

Sunshine beach illuminated by a full moon, through a red filter; one assumes the exposure could almost be long enough to invite Mr and Mrs reciprocity to the party.

The shadow detail in the foreground looks good on the screen, one wonders how much better it must be when viewed directly from the print.

[Maris]

Thanks Mick for your kind comments.
Moonrise pictures are often attended by adversity.
The moon moves its own width across the sky in two minutes so exposures that are too long deliver a sausage shaped moon.
The sky at the horizon is very pale blue so a red filter doesn't have much to work with but it still has to be used in a desperate search for contrast.
Overexposing the moon blanks out the "man in the moon" face and makes it look like an underexposed sun rise.

Net result is an underexposed negative cropped to make the moon look bigger with foreground details too thin to print properly.
What to do? Accept the technical compromises and settle for some semi-abstract simplicity.

[Mick Fagan]

Your comments remind me of this joke.

Question: How does the Man in the Moon, cut his hair?

Answer: He-Clips; it!