Hi friends. Here's a bonus birthday. Present from picture. Love to you in honor of Picture Love's. First birthday. I mentioned on the regular episode. Celebrating picture loves birthday. That, this beautiful story unfolded because I went outside to photograph. The supermoon in October of 2024. And I had just learned how to do it. I wish I could credit the source of where I learned this. It was on social media. Anyway. If you have a smartphone. This will work. If you're a smartphone, has, a functioning camera that is and memory to take video. This is not for flip phones or phones that do not have actual computer screens. So I'm going to just lovingly say iPhone because that's what I use, but this is good for pretty much any smartphone. So. You're outside in the dark and you want to take a picture of the moon. You do not need photo mode. You need to switch into video mode. And when your camera app is on and you're in video mode. Point the. The camera, at the moon and touch the screen. So you focus in on what you want. And don't zoom too much. You can zoom a little if you want to, but not too much. Then press record. As you are recording. You touched the moon again, and you're going to get this. It looks like a little slider bar that goes up and down. And what you want to do is touch that slider bar. Slide all the way down. Which is going to reduce the amount of light that the lens is allowing in. And it's going to look like you're darkening the moon. It's going to make the sky even darker. If it's not already pitch-black appearing. Don't worry. And then you'll notice you can see all the light and the dark and the texture of the moon. Now, while you are taking this video, there will be a white button on your screen of your iPhone, where you get to take a screenshot, a photo of still from the video while you are still recording. Go ahead. You might find your screen is kind of dancing around because your hands not as steady as a tripod, don't worry about it. Take maybe I don't know, three, four shots, and then hit stop on the video. Open up your camera roll and see how you did. And the good thing about shooting the moon. It's not like trying to take a perfect picture of a kindergartner at their first soccer game. The moon has much more cooperative staying in the frame. Then a kid or an animal will be. So when in doubt, if it doesn't go well, just dump them and start over again. Again, you're going to go into video mode. Touch the moon in the screen while you were recording and video. Slide the slide bar down. So it makes it as dark as possible. Touch on the moons. You get the, the right amount of zooming in or zooming out. You want. And then just hit that little white. Capture. Button that appears on your smartphone screen. And every time you touch it, you should get another shot. But please, please, please. Don't clutter your camera. I know I'm dramatic with my voices. There's no reason to take 50 of them. All it takes is one. Good one. And then dump the rest, dump the video where you got the stills from. Unless there's something beautiful playing in the background or somebody dancing in the Moonlight that you actually want to video. This is a chance to take a lot and dump everything, but one, okay. Fair enough. That is how I got this amazing picture. Of the supermoon and October of 20, 24 and how I will forever take pictures of the moon. I hope you love it. Let me know how it. goes.