Moonrise over Shasta
Ref.#87 4433 ~ Moonrise over Shasta
When returning from a trip to California, I was driving North on 1-5 near Yreka. I happened to glance in my rear view mirror only to spot an enormous moon filling the view. I had brought along a very large telephoto (800mm+1.4X) for my Pentax 6x7cm medium format camera. The lens alone was about 24" long and weighed about 15#. The camera was wedged into my trunk. By the time I had extracted it and set it on the tripod, the moon had risen a considerable distance. I then realized that because Mt Shasta was about 13,000' elevation I could back up on the highway shoulder and lower the perceptive altitude of the moon. I backed up until the moon was "touching" the shoulder of the mountain then quickly parked and again set up the tripod and camera. I guessed that any exposure over 5 seconds could blur the moon because of the Earth’s rotation. . I had a one-degree spot meter and calculated the aperture from that. I bracketed the exposure for insurance. Everyone who saw the image first thought it was photoshopped or double exposed in the darkroom. It was not. (Photoshop and consumer digital imaging did not come for another five years.)
Pentax 6x7cm camera: Kodak Kodacolor film; 800mm +1.4x Telephoto lens (1120mm)
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