Montana...so beautiful even an I-Phone pic shows it

[Laura PourMeADrink]

This afternoon outside Bozeman

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wow! You're not kidding, my dear Laura!

Catching the moon as it emerges from behind the mountains is something I cannot do. Our mountains have too much stuff around them to allow it, and I can't get above it the way you did here.

This is just gorgeous! It looks like the moon is in The Belt of Venus. Amazing catch!

Thank you.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. I'm not there. My husband took it. He has an amazing eye.

I praised him two years ago and he immediately stopped taking pics. (Doesn't like praise or attention). So glad he may be coming back . He took his good camera up there, so fingers crossed.

[cilla4progress]

3. My daughter lives there!

Love it!

Shhh...so does everyone!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. By all means, DO NOT TELL HIM ABOUT THE PHOTO GROUP!

[SharonAnn]

5. That is stunning! I've been there and this photo brings the memories all rushing back.

[PatrickforO]

6. The Big Sky state. Montana.

It is beautiful there.

I can remember the last time I was there, I drove and drove and drove and Montana just kept on coming.

Not only the sky is big. The state is also.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. howelll.

[SheltieLover]

8. Gorgeous!

Ty for sharing!

[ShazzieB]

9. This really takes me back!

Bozeman has had a special place in my heart, ever since my husband and I spent some time there 2 years ago. It was supposed to be just a quick stop to visit the Museum of the Rockies on a trip through several different states, but it ended up being more like a couple of weeks. We were about to leave town when our car's transmission decided to blow up,and it took forever to get a new transmission shipped from.... wherever they had to get it from. While we were waiting, we rented a car and drove back and forth to Yellowstone several times in addition to exploring a lot more of Montana than we had planned. It was gorgeous, and this lovely photo is bringing it all back.

[SunSeeker]

10. How come every phone pic I take of the moon it just looks like a little white dot?

I have a Galaxy S10. Maybe that's the problem?

[Dem2theMax]

11. I have the same problem.

And the same phone. Let's blame it on the phone!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. I don't know, not there. He has I-phone 8+. I'll drill him later:)

[ManiacJoe]

16. You are the victim of auto-exposure.

The camera does not know that the while dot is the subject, so it tries to get the black sky to be a nice medium gray, thus overexposing everything

If your camera has this focus feature, tap on the moon to set it as the focus target. This will often reset the auto-exposure to be based on the focus target.

Otherwise, switch to manual exposure. The moon is in full sunlight, so you need to use noon-time exposures.
Try these settings as starters, adjust to taste.
DSLR = ISO 200, f/8, 1/250
phone = ISO 100, f/1.4, 1/2000

[SunSeeker]

17. Cool. Thanks!

I can definitely handle the tapping on the moon tip. The f-stop configurating may be beyond my competence. I need to take a phone photography class. But I appreciate the info!

[Chainfire]

12. That photo looks like a desert to me

To me, beautiful land is full of crops sustaining human life. That place looks like it could only sustain life if men could live by eating rocks.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. To each his own, huh. Desert climate

The worst to me, but some people love it.

Yes, give me trees and water and beautiful vegetation!

[mnhtnbb]

15. What a marvelous shot!