Creating a video of the full moon rising directly behind the Golden Gate Bridge has always been a personal photographic challenge for me.
Getting the weather and alignment timed perfectly required some trial and error!
In honor of the full moon energy that we're currently basking in today,
I present my own particular form of lunacy.
Notes: Shot from the Marin Headlands near the Point Bonita Lighthouse approximately 1.5 miles from the GG Bridge. Sped up 10x.
Gear: Panasonic GX7 in crop mode with Metabones Speedboosted Sigma 120-400mm lens at 300mm, with an equivalent focal length of about 1000mm due to the GH7s crop factor combined with the Speedbooster. Worked pretty well considering this was at sea level with quite a bit of atmospheric distortion. Moon location was precisely determined by using a combination of The Photographers Ephemeris and Sun Surveyor... both great apps and extremely important for successfully accomplishing a shoot like this.
Music: Diana Krall "Fly Me to the Moon"
Thanks for watching.
I have a long history of inventing tools for animators and also making films and photographs. My wife, daughter and I live at the foot of beautiful Mt. Tamalpais on the San Francisco Bay and I've been using technology to tell complex stories for a long time. My biggest claim to fame? Leading the team that created Autodesk 3ds Max... the most popular 3D animation tool of all time. When I sold the Yost Group to Autodesk at the end of the last century I jumped headfirst into pursing my original love... photography and filmmaking. Now I spend all of my time exploring the mysteries of my world with my cameras, and revealing what I find in my images and films.
