I was so excited all day to take pictures of the Supermoon tonight— I’ve been a space dork for as long as I can remember– from Space Camp and beyond. 🙂 (And this is my astronaut cousin.)
While I love taking photos in low light, I had a bit of trouble capturing the Supermoon because my go-to lens is a wide-angle lens. While this lens is perfect for landscapes and indoor room photography, it isn’t exactly what I needed to capture the details of moon tonight.
I saw this post on free-lensing the other day on A Beautiful Mess, so I decided to try free-lensing with an old telephoto lens that my uncle gave me and my Nikon D40. (My b-team camera. :)) The equipment: 
The results:
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I didn’t get any spectacular results like this, but it was still fun to mess around with the old telephoto lens and look up at the moon! 😉 If anyone has any tips on getting things focused while free-lensing, I would be SO grateful. Otherwise, I’m off to the Flickr message boards. 🙂
Holy cow, Gus Grissom was your cousin?! That's awesome! He was the coolest. My dad used to work on the Grissom Air Force Base in Kokomo.
Holy cow, Gus Grissom was your cousin?! That's awesome! He was the coolest. My dad used to work on the Grissom Air Force Base in Kokomo.
Yeah he was!! My dad is from Mitchell, IN– Gus Grissom is my third cousin. 🙂