so what happens when there is little light? Kenji Ishikawa can tell you, the 74-year old Japanese photographer has
been travelling the world for the last 35 years taking photographs with one of
the most minimal forms of light: moonlight, above “Iguazu Falls and Rainbows,” taken
in Argentina by Kenji Ishikawa,
“Jomon cedar” taken on Yakushima island, as
you probably know, moonlight is mostly sunlight that’s reflected off the lunar
surface, so it varies greatly depending on the phase of the moon,
“Monument Valley” taken in the United States,
put
differently, the magnitude of the full Moon is only about 1/380,000 that of the
Sun, above “Cape and Wave” shot
in Saipan,
Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, rather than the blue-lit sky of day, Ishikawa’s images show a
dark blue seems to connect the stars and skies with the trees and bodies of
water of our planet, Ishikawa calls this gekkouyoku (月光浴) meaning literally “bathing
in moonlight.”
taken at Itoshima, Fukuoka, what a neat idea, I had never given a thought to moonlight photography before, so the next time we are somewhere that looks like it could make a pleasing photograph, I will be lurking around in the moonlight with my trusty tripod!
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