Disappointing moon shots
May 26, 2013 17:56:08 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
The shot over the water is really lovely! You can'... (show quote)
Yes thank you I use that web site also. Problem is that mountain. Last night it took till 10:23pm to peep out. I'm going to try the other side of the mountain tonight.
May 26, 2013 18:19:38 #
tita1948 wrote:
Yes thank you I use that web site also. Problem is that mountain. Last night it took till 10:23pm to peep out. I'm going to try the other side of the mountain tonight.
That is a can-do spirit. Love it! And good luck, hope the weather is your friend :)
May 27, 2013 05:19:06 #
This isnt too bad for your first try and this one just needed the levels altering to make it very acceptable to me
just a little bit blurry , keep at it
May 27, 2013 05:29:31 #
Unfortunately CT Has had nothing but rain for the past week..Maybe I'll catch it on the Wane tonight..I got a decent Waxing super moon though.. Taken @ 300mm iso 100 f/20 1/15ss (Cropped) Handheld, didn't have my tripod on me.
May 27, 2013 06:40:21 #
JR1 wrote:
This brings back memories. It must have been in the 1970's that someone gave me a linear calculator something like that. If I can find it, I'll post pictures.
I can print on CDs, but cutting little windows into them might be a challenge. :D
May 27, 2013 06:41:47 #
sixshooter wrote:
Unfortunately CT Has had nothing but rain for the past week..Maybe I'll catch it on the Wane tonight...
Great shot for handhel. We've had nothing but "wane" here, too, for the past week.
May 27, 2013 06:42:58 #
sixshooter wrote:
Unfortunately CT Has had nothing but rain for the past week..Maybe I'll catch it on the Wane tonight..I got a decent Waxing super moon though.. Taken @ 300mm iso 100 f/20 1/15ss (Cropped) Handheld, didn't have my tripod on me.
Good moon shot!
May 27, 2013 06:52:00 #
tita1948 wrote:
I added 3 I don't know where the third one went to. Also the numbers got twisted around. Maybe I should just add one at a time. I'll just add two #1236 and #1248
Not enough data in this pic to salvage.
May 27, 2013 07:04:24 #
tita1948 wrote:
I went out last night to photograph the moon. Very disappointing results. Used the moon rules I have read here ISO100, F11 or 16, shutter speed 1/100. I'd post the pictures but I'm too embarrassed.
Where did I go wrong?
Where did I go wrong?
You will get a lot of answers, all good. But they could confuse you. First of all are you spot metering, as the moon is the brightest object, sometimes overpowering based on the phase. Go shutter priority, lower speed to higher based again on moon brightness. Since you're shooting digital you should see the changes on each shot. Open up your lens as you will lose detail at f/11. You will see changes on each exposure. Also stay away from higher ISO's as they may bring noise into the equation. Stay around 100 to 200. Here's a few examples with spot metering.
Full moon rising
Past quarter moon
May 27, 2013 07:23:29 #
Remember when the moon is first rising it is darker than when it gets up in the sky and you need to adjust you settings accordingly. check the histogram , expose to the right but do not touch the right side so you do not blow out the moon
May 27, 2013 08:59:42 #
In reading the OP comments, am I the only one who caught the word "Camera shake"? If you are shooting hand held and your settings require you to shoot an exposure more than a 1/30th sec you should really consider using a tripod. Camera shake is inevitable at speeds slower than that. In the event no tripod is available, any source of stability that does not move is better than hand held. A tripod gives you the flexibility to make adjustments within the exposure triangle without giving too much thought to shutter speed. I'm not going to argue with anyone about aperture and ISO settings when shooting the moon, but unless you have a lens that most people only dream about, f/16 @ 100 iso and your shutter speed is 1/100sec....I'm kind of surprised you see the moon at all. Shooting the moon is always tough but with the super moon coming up next month, you should get opportunities abound. Good luck. keep posting the shots.
May 27, 2013 09:37:44 #
Jerry Green
Loc: Huntsville, AL
Here is a shot (Moon 25 April 2013) at f/16, 1/1000 sec, ISO 1000 with a Nikon D800E and Nikon 600mm mounted on a tripod.
Moon 25 April 2013
May 27, 2013 10:55:00 #
I too went out and shot the moon last night and was surprised at the results. This was shot on a D800 on a tripod with 1.7x teleconverter on a 70-200mm@340mm f/8 1/60s ISO 100. The craters on the right have good definition, but I was surprised how dark the moon came out of the camera. It took some pretty good PP to get it to this point. There was some high, thin cirrus, so not a completely clean shot.
It appears that you have to shoot it very dark and adjust in PP. Is that true?
It appears that you have to shoot it very dark and adjust in PP. Is that true?
May 27, 2013 11:05:19 #
Wabbit
Loc: Arizona Desert
tita1948 wrote:
I went out last night to photograph the moon. Very disappointing results. Used the moon rules I have read here ISO100, F11 or 16, shutter speed 1/100. I'd post the pictures but I'm too embarrassed.
Where did I go wrong?
Where did I go wrong?
Huh!
May 27, 2013 11:08:25 #
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