From the course: Landscape Photography: Night Landscape

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Finding the right setup for the shot (pros and cons of a full moon)

Finding the right setup for the shot (pros and cons of a full moon)

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Finding the right setup for the shot (pros and cons of a full moon)

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- I'm checking out this desert landscape here in anticipation of the full Moon tonight. And, I see a lot of possibilities that I can shoot. I'm really liking the mountains in the far distance. There's some cool badlands over there. Kind of an eroded small area of hills, which I think looks pretty cool. I think for a lot of the far shots, the mountains and those badlands over there, I think I'm probably gonna be using the 7200 lens just because I'm not really in the mood to be hiking all the way out over there. There's also a lot of stuff, in this area, I want to shoot. So, other things I'm looking at is, you know, where is the Moon gonna come up in my shot. I've got an iPhone app called Moon Seeker. And so, when I turn that on, it actually shows me a live camera view of the scene, and overlaid over that is the path of the Moon. So I've already checked this out. I know that the Moon is gonna be coming up right over there. The end of that little ridge of mountains. So, I can set up my…

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