tips anyone on how to get the best picture of the great moon we are to have tonight and tomorrow?
Using a Nikon 800. Anyone have some tips on getting the detail of the great moon?
Gene51
Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
Ike Gittlen wrote:
Using a Nikon 800. Anyone have some tips on getting the detail of the great moon?
I took this super moon on 11/16/16 last year. I waited until it was just past full - 93% Waning Gibbous to be exact. A full moon has less contrast and correspondingly less detail.
here is a photo I took a few years ago during an eclipse, I used a Pentax K10D at the time. Camera on tripod, ISO 400, 300 mm, F5.8, 1/500, exposure comp used -0.3. this was used for the full moon, it changed for the second photo.
rehess
Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA
Ike Gittlen wrote:
Using a Nikon 800. Anyone have some tips on getting the detail of the great moon?
Regardless of what camera you use, the tricky part is exposure; it doesn't take much over exposure to wash out detail, but by its very nature, over exposure is natural, because you are taking a photo of something lighted by the sun just as a squirrel at noon would be, but this picture is taken at night.
A good starting point is always the "sunny 16" rule and the "looney 11" rule; you want the aperture to be around f/16 or f/11, and the shutter speed to be the reciprocal of the ISO setting; for example, if the ISO is set to 100, you want a shutter speed of about 1/100, while setting ISO to 400 would say the shutter speed should be about 1/400.
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