Super Moon Sandhills

[Michael Thompson]

I was at Crex Meadows Wisconsin, for the big 98 percent full moon last weekend. I set up where I knew the cranes would be flying low at sunset, and waited for the moon to come up and cranes to fly by. I got many neat images by just tracking the cranes and geese as the flew towards the moon and firing away at 10 frames a second when they flew through it. This is probably my favorite shot, almost perfect, except unfortunately, a couple of cranes got entangled and looked like a blob below the moon, so I had to erase them using the spot removal tool in lightroom. then just a bit of cropping, sharpening and saturation, and it was done. Canon 7D ll with the 100-400 ll at 400 mm, f7.1, 100 ss 1250 iso

[Mike Poole]

I like your thinking here Michael, love to see something out of the ordinary.

Thanks for sharing this one, I enjoyed it a lot.

Mike

[arash_hazeghi]

I also like the idea, but I wish they were not flying away from you and had a better wing position. I might clone out the birds that are outside of the moon as they don't add much to the story. he image is noisy, it needs some NR
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[keith mitchell]

Michael I very much like what you have done getting this shot,full of atmosphere and artistry.

Keith.

[Michael Thompson]

I also like the idea, but I wish they were not flying away from you and had a better wing position. I might clone out the birds that are outside of the moon as they don't add much to the story. he image is noisy, it needs some NR
TFS

Thanks, I will try in this repost

[John Whaley]

I am a fan. Beautiful.