Day 4: Let There Be The Sun, Moon, and Stars

A picture of the moon? When I hear that, I envision a beach, in the middle of the night, with palm trees silhouetted against the moonlight, and waves on the sand, with a perfectly round moon in the center of the sky.

Well, believe me, I went to the beach, there were no palm trees, and my pictures are grainy, blurry blobs of light, if you look hard you can distinguish the waves from the sand. =D

But, I decided to practice night photography in my own backyard.
The moon was out yesterday around 4:15pm...I ran outside to take some pictures, and there was one star below the moon. I have no idea which one it was though. :) Then later (around 9pm) on our way home from 4-H I saw the moon, and that same star, the sky was much darker then, though! And I saw the little dipper. But when I got home I was to lazy to go upstairs, get my camera, go back downstairs, go out side, and try to take a picture because my battery was half dead, and I knew I wasn't going to get anywhere near a good picture.

With that out of the way...I need to get those pictures on the computer, and see what they look like. :) One better be good, so I can put it on here, if they are all bad, I'll just have to find one from my trip to the beach, and use it. 

Okay, so I changed the colors on one picture a ton, and it looks kinda cool to me. =) It doesn't really even look like the original, which had a really blue sky, instead it looks as if it was taken in the dead of night. haha :)

A fellow blogger commented on nzkiwi girl's blog, (she is doing this challenge) and said to take a good picture of the moon, to put your ISO really low, among other things. Now I want to do that! haha maybe I will try it tonight if I can see the moon. For now, here's just one picture.

See that little dot of light below the moon? That is the star. :)

*Edit

Okay, I took some more pictures, and I was looking to see if I could find what that star is. Supposedly if it's not twinkling its Jupiter. While it would be cool to see a planet so close, I am kinda skeptical. :)

Here's another picture of the moon, I just adjusted the contrast/shadows/highlights. Then I put it in a 'before/after' frame. In case you're wondering, the thing in the lower left hand corner of the left picture is a tree branch (you can't really see it that much). :)

-Emily