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Watching a rocket launch live must be a breathtaking experience.
I am an amateur space junkie.
I love space science, especially the Moon landing.
I even make educational videos about it from a photographers perspective.
I have had sooo many arguments with people who say the Moon landing was a hoax…
But I have patience, and I tell and describe to them for the 789th time how it was.
And now we do it again, but at the next level!
I wanted to make something WOW that is worthy of this mission.
Of course, I did my research to understand what the Artemis program is all about.
Why we go back, how we go back, and what the long-term plans and goals are.
The Artemis program is actually the first step to landing on Mars.
So I watched some video simulations and saw that during the Moon orbit, they wont use thrust.
Only for the Earth-to-Moon path.
Let’s see the photos and I will tell you more stories about the whole process!
I just needed a nice cloudy sky.
But I was dumb enough to transport the rocket in a stupid way, so it crashed.
3…2…1, We Have A Lift-Off!
The biggest challenge was the lift-off image.
I miscalculated two things.
One: the amount of cotton balls, I nearly ran out of them.
Second: the mosquitoes.
They ate me alive.
The full setting, with LED kit to light up the tower and the launchpad.
Yepp, thats a shot glass under the boosters.
The fire smoke was quite a challenge to build from cotton.
I made several test shots with the flashlight to see how it looked.
Using cottonballs to create smoke.
The Orion module and the Moon surface from gypsum.
With the Orion photo, I realized something during the set building.
The lights were essential at this picture.
After that, I used my finger to draw craters in the gypsum.
