December Full Moon Rising Over Cleveland Cool Photo Op 12/15 -12/20

Hey Photographers are you ready to brave the cold weather and photograph the Full Moon Rising over Cleveland?  Well here's your chance, we had really big turnouts in October and November, now you'll have a chance to get some winter Full Moon shots in December. The Moon will be rising near Browns Stadium and moving over the city from Sunday the 15th to Friday the 20th. The best days for fullness will be Monday thru Thursday with the actual full moon occurring on Tuesday the 17th.  Everyone is welcome to join in the Fun!!! NOTE the shoot takes place at the Upper Level of Edgewater Park, the entrance is at West Blvd and Cliff Drive.  Go here to sign up and see who else is going.... Cool Photo Ops Full Moon Shoot

More Full Moon photos can be seen here: Hunter Moon Rising and here: Beaver Moon Rising

As stated above the actual Full Moon will be on Tuesday 12/17 but since a lot of people work it may be hard for them to get out of work and down to Edgewater on time for the moon rise, that's why this event will start on Sunday 12/15 and continue thru Friday 12/ 20. Go on the day that's convenient for you. The moon will rise in different places over the city and different times each which I'll list below. As an added bonus on Sunday we will have an added Christmas Lights Cool Photo Op in downtown Cleveland. This is optional, join in if you want to.

ALL OF THE MOONRISE SHOOTS TAKE PLACE AT THE UPPER LEVEL OF EDGEWATER PARK.  Do NOT put Edgewater Park into your GPS or you will end up at the main beach entrance. The Upper Level has a separate entrance at the intersection of  West Blvd and Cliff Drive.

Here's a Google Map..... 

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Here's the Moonrise info:

Sunday:  The moon will rise near Browns Stadium  Meet at Upper Edgewater Park at 3:00pm
Sunset: 16:58
Moonrise: 16:01 The moon will rise about an hour before sunset, so on this night you will have more even lighting on the Moon and downtown buildings  Full Moon 95%

Monday: Again the moon will rise near Browns Stadium Meet at Upper Edgewater Park at 4:00pm
Sunset: 16:58
Moonrise 16:48  The moon will rise 10 minutes before Sunset Full Moon 98%

Tuesday: The night of the Full Moon.  The moon will rise again near Browns Stadium Meet at  Upper Edgewater Park at 4:30pm
Sunset: 16:48
Moonrise: 17:38  The moon will rise about 40 minutes after sunset so it will be dark and downtown buildings lit up.  Moon 100%

Wednesday:  The moon will rise over Lakeside Ave  Meet at Upper Edgewater Park at 5:30pm
Sunset: 16:59
Moonrise: 18:30  Moonrises an hour and a half after sunset Moon 99.7%

Thursday: The moon again rises near Lakeside Ave  Meet at Upper Edgewater Park at  7:00pm
Sunset: 16:59
Moonrise: 19:25 Moon rises about 2 1/2 hours after sunset. Moon 98%

Friday: The Moon takes a big jump here and rises over Public Square between the Key Tower and BP Building  Meet at Upper Edgewater Park at  8:00pm
Sunset: 16:59
Moonrise: 20:21  Moon rises about 2 hours and 22 minutes after sunset over the center of the city

So you can see while the sunset is pretty constant at about 5pm every night, the moon rise time and location changes a lot. From rising before sunset near Browns Stadium at 4:01pm on Sunday to rising over Public Square at 8:21pm on Friday.

Keep an eye on the skies and weather and pick the day or days that work best for you! Hope to see you there!!!!

Bonus Photo Op - Cleveland Christmas Lights - after the moonrise we will hop on the shoreway and into downtown Cleveland to photograph the Christmas Lights from various locations. Here are some photos from last year....  Click to go to the gallery



Moonrise Photo Tips and stuff to bring:
1. A flashlight so you can see what you're doing after the sun sets
2. A remote cable release if you have one
3 A sturdy tripod and DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT RAISING YOUR CENTER POST!!! Raising the center post is very unstable and will cause camera movement, its very windy by the lake and you will be using some long exposures, s I like to get a lot of the building and sometimes the Lake in focus so I like to shoot at an aperture of around F7 or F8, if you close down more you end up with some really long exposure times which would be ok and a still night, but o you want your camera to be as stable as possible.

For the best quality shoot at low ISO's of 100 or 200, if you want to keep the exposure times down you could go as high as 400 ISO.

if the wind is blowing it could cause some blurry photos. Shooting at wider apertures or even wide open is ok too, but you'll have less depth of field.

Anyway hope to see a lot of you down by the Lake for this Cool Photo Op!  Everybody is welcome to join in the fun, bring family and friends if you want!

And if you enjoy going on fun casual photo ops like this then check out the Cool Photo Ops Facebook Group, where we post cool places to take photos in Ohio and beyond, everyone is welcome to join in the fun from beginning photographers to more experienced photographers the only prerequisite is Ya Gotta Have Fun!!!!!