CAMERA & LENS: Nikon D90; mountain image lens was Sigma 17 - 70mm f/2.8 - f4 zoom; supermoon lens was Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 zoom with Tamron 1.4x teleconverter.
EXPOSURE: Mountains: aperture priority, 28mm, 1/90 @f/8, ISO 400; moon: manual exposure setting, 300mm, 1/10 @ f/2.8 ISO 1000
COMPOSITING : Photoshop Elements 10
COMMENT: This image is a composite of two images, the mountains and the moon. I was visiting Switzerland to do some genealogy research when I decided to take a break and do some hiking on the mountains. As a base for my hiking, I choose Murren, one of Switzerland’s top ski resorts but which remains a small traffic-free village 5,400 feet up the slope of the 9,700 foot Schilithorn mountain. Having previously made the image of the supermoon from a location near my home in Williamsburg, Virginia, I immediately saw the opportunity to add the moon to an image of these majestic mountains. The mountain image was made from our hotel balcony in the late afternoon.