‘Cosmic Coincidence’ Photos of Sunset and Moonset Were Years in the Making
A photographer and dancer collaborated on a brilliant "Cosmic Coincidence" diptych that embraces the sunset and moonset in two harmonious images.
A photographer and dancer collaborated on a brilliant "Cosmic Coincidence" diptych that embraces the sunset and moonset in two harmonious images.
Back in 2016, photographer Phil Mosby left his camera overnight on a mountainside overlooking Lake Tahoe and had it snap photos over 9 hours. What resulted was this strangely beautiful timelapse that shows the setting moon, the Milky Way, Perseids meteors, and smoke from nearby wildfires.
Using lens compression to capture a giant moon is nothing new, but photographer Daniel López has taken things to a whole level. He set up an ultra-telephoto lens about 10 miles (16km) away from a volcano and captured this mind-blowing 2-minute video that shows a moonset in real-time.
Want to learn how to predict and photograph a moonrise or moonset? Here's a helpful 5-minute video on just that by photographer Matthew Saville of Nature TTL.
Photographing the moon can be spectacular—a rising full moon looks very big and is often red. And combining a spectacular moonrise shot with landscapes or objects in close-up can give really great results.