SUpermoon: It will be a rare night here in Los Angeles, a Supermoon and clear skies. Usually, when there is some astronomical event, like a comet cruising by it's cloudy or we have a...

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

It will be a rare night here in Los Angeles, a Supermoon and clear skies. Usually, when there is some astronomical event, like a comet cruising by it's cloudy or we have a coastal fog bank.

Seeing as it will be clear tonight, what do you recommend for exposure settings for a good lunar shot?

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

It will be a rare night here in Los Angeles, a Supermoon and clear skies. Usually, when there is some astronomical event, like a comet cruising by it's cloudy or we have a coastal fog bank.

Seeing as it will be clear tonight, what do you recommend for exposure settings for a good lunar shot?

That's a good question, I hope there's a better answer than mine. My plan is to set up at f/16 and a shutter speed the reciprocal of the ISO. Probably an ISO of 200 and a shutter speed of 1/200.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Well Mac, sounds like a plan to me.

Erik_H Loc: Denham Springs, Louisiana

Seeing as how the moon is a sunlit object, the sunny 16 rule is a good place to start. Mac pretty much nailed it.

lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

It will be a rare night here in Los Angeles, a Supermoon and clear skies. Usually, when there is some astronomical event, like a comet cruising by it's cloudy or we have a coastal fog bank.

Seeing as it will be clear tonight, what do you recommend for exposure settings for a good lunar shot?

Spotmeter on the moon and underexpose about 1-1/2 stops, check the live histogram and adjust, use a fast enough speed to counter movement.
Are you handholding or using a tripod?
How long a lens are you using?
Suggesting 1/200th without knowing these may be well intentioned and close to the mark, but its not acting on all relevant information.
They might be using 600mm handheld.

Jamers Loc: Michigan

lighthouse wrote:

Spotmeter on the moon and underexpose about 1-1/2 stops, check the live histogram and adjust, use a fast enough speed to counter movement.
Are you handholding or using a tripod?
How long a lens are you using?
Suggesting 1/200th without knowing these may be well intentioned and close to the mark, but its not acting on all relevant information.
They might be using 600mm handheld.

Overcast here outside Detroit :(

skiman Loc: Ventura, CA

Mac wrote:

That's a good question, I hope there's a better answer than mine. My plan is to set up at f/16 and a shutter speed the reciprocal of the ISO. Probably an ISO of 200 and a shutter speed of 1/200.

This was taken on Friday the 13th back in June with my D7100 with 28-300mm at 300mm (then cropped to 949x934).

Manual, ISO 100, 1/250, f/7.1, EV0 on tripod with remote shutter and mirror up.

(Download)

Chris Knight Loc: Ayden, nc

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

It will be a rare night here in Los Angeles, a Supermoon and clear skies. Usually, when there is some astronomical event, like a comet cruising by it's cloudy or we have a coastal fog bank.

Seeing as it will be clear tonight, what do you recommend for exposure settings for a good lunar shot?

Took a few on the east coast tonight...

djenrette Loc: Philadelphia

Using the "sunny 16" rule for photographing the moon is not a bad place to start since the full moon is, of course, an object in full sunlight and if the exposure is off you can chimp that and make corrections, BUT the moon's surface is NOT th silvery object we see but is actually a dark grey color. Following the sunny 16 rule will produce a photograph that will probably look too dark compared to what you might expect. So you may need to open up an f/stop or so. But if you have photographed the moon, you already know this.

bobzeller Loc: San Angelo, Texas

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

It will be a rare night here in Los Angeles, a Supermoon and clear skies. Usually, when there is some astronomical event, like a comet cruising by it's cloudy or we have a coastal fog bank.

Seeing as it will be clear tonight, what do you recommend for exposure settings for a good lunar shot?

That sun shining on the moon is the same sun that is shining on earth. Figure your exposure accordingly. Heck, the Sunny Sixteen rule can be applied here.

bobzeller Loc: San Angelo, Texas

bobzeller wrote:

That sun shining on the moon is the same sun that is shining on earth. Figure your exposure accordingly. Heck, the Sunny Sixteen rule can be applied here.

My bad, I agree that the sunny sixteen is the starting point. Then adjust from there.

Shoeless_Photographer Loc: Lexington

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

It will be a rare night here in Los Angeles, a Supermoon and clear skies. Usually, when there is some astronomical event, like a comet cruising by it's cloudy or we have a coastal fog bank.

Seeing as it will be clear tonight, what do you recommend for exposure settings for a good lunar shot?

Head up to Big Bear, or Griffith Observatory!

EngineerAl

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

It will be a rare night here in Los Angeles, a Supermoon and clear skies.

Your vile words follow, to lend some of your absolute genius to your own thread, Mister Hateful Troll. Some of your own words to brighten up everyone's day who visits your thread, as you brighten up so many others.

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

You are, without a doubt, the perfect example of the single helix mongoloid idiot product of a mutant gent pool on here.

Jamers Loc: Michigan

:?:

EngineerAl

Jamers, this "rgrenaderphoto" fellow simply goes from thread to thread, lobbing his grenades into threads and spewing things like this, all the time:

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

You are, without a doubt, the perfect example of the single helix mongoloid idiot product of a mutant gent (sic) pool on here.

What a brilliant conversationalist he is, don't you think?