Moon shot *moon Post your moon shots here!

[ash]

Ive always been fascinated by the moon, so thursday night after realising it was actually nearly a full moon and very clear after getting tucked up in bed and wondering where all the light was coming from I got back up again, missuz was not pleased , and got the 'bigma' out. That cheered her up a bit only kidding its my big sigma lens 500mm, sounds big ya might think, and it is actually giving 750mm in digital money, but its not so bigma after all because the moon was still very small in the frame.

The battle was keeping the monster still as the moon was at a very awkward angle to the window, so the tripod was a no no, decided on a pillow.

This is my second ever attempt at photographing the moon, my first attempt was with my A2 and its 7 optical zoom, you can imagine wat those were like cant seem to find those, I must have deleted them in disgust

Anyway I tried many diferent settings and this was one that seemed to come out best. Has been cropped (obviously) and sharpened.
100/sec f11 iso400 nikon d200

Im sure there are some better pictures of the moon that other forum members have taken, so why not share them here. I really would love to see any and the settings and equipment you have used.


cheers
Ash.

[coupekid]

Re: Moon shot Post your moon shots here!

Super shot Ash!

But why such a high ISO, and narrow apperture?

Personally when I go for these sorts of shots, I always keep the ISO as low as possible, apperture as wide as possible, to get the fastest possible shutter speed.

[ash]

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Eyup matey, how's it goin, so it sounds like you is an expert on moon shots, cant wait to see some!

I admit this is out of my comfort zone so you tend to experiment and try different settings on the camera so then when you attack the subject again you have a ruff idea.
This was just a shot of many that seemed to come out the best, does not mean these are perfect settings to take such a shot.
Cant wait for your moon pics, I have high hopes now
cheers
Ash.

[coupekid]

Re: Moon shot Post your moon shots here!

Eyup matey, how's it goin, so it sounds like you is an expert on moon shots, cant wait to see some!

I admit this is out of my comfort zone so you tend to experiment and try different settings on the camera so then when you attack the subject again you have a ruff idea.
This was just a shot of many that seemed to come out the best, does not mean these are perfect settings to take such a shot.
Cant wait for your moon pics, I have high hopes now
cheers
Ash.

High hopes! with my little 300mm lense Ash....I hate to say it, but yours is much bigger than mine!



This is the best I can do

[19ninety]

Re: Moon shot Post your moon shots here!

those are great, I also saw there was a nice moon about, I think it was thursday morning on the way to work ... however with absolutley no preperation or research on how to get a photo of the moon this is about the only shot close to what I was after....
Would it have been possible to take that same image, whilst retaining the moon detail?



Also, I shot the image in RAW mode which produces a .RAF file ... and its got a strange canvas effect to it? Managed to get rid of it with neatimage though withut loosing too much detail.

[coupekid]

Re: Moon shot Post your moon shots here!

those are great, I also saw there was a nice moon about, I think it was thursday morning on the way to work ... however with absolutley no preperation or research on how to get a photo of the moon this is about the only shot close to what I was after....
Would it have been possible to take that same image, whilst retaining the moon detail?

Sadly it isnt.
What a lot of people dont realise, is that taking pictures of the moon, is in essence, no different to taking pictures of a brightly sunlit object, after all, thats's exactly what it is. So you would need two very different exposures to get detail in both the dark trees, and the bright moon.

Of course, it is slightly different when shooting an eclipse

The other thing to remember, is that because of the earth rotation, you need a pretty quick shutter speed to prevent blurring of the image, and losing the detail.

[Caz]

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And here's one from the other end of the camera spectrum. This was taken with my Canon A610 (and yes, Ben, I had at last used a full size tripod - my little camera looks a bit like a pimple on there, but it had to be done!)

It's obviously been cropped - I find I can get images I'm reasonably happy with with this camera, even though it comes in the compact/point and shoot category, because it does has reasonable manual control. Just wish it had a bigger sensor . Always said I wouldn't go back to SLR (or DSLR now), but as I get more into photography, it is becoming tempting...

[ash]

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Nice one caz, ive got a little cannon a85 and it takes cracking pictures, I take it out with me when I dont want to be lumbered with my slr.
cheers
Ash

[ash]

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Wow moons everywhere love it!

[ash]

Re: Moon shot Post your moon shots here!

Arrr sillouetted tree's, you can also get a very similar effect but alot more colourful if you try this same shot but with a sunset always focus on the tree and branches get them nice n sharp!

[19ninety]

Re: Moon shot Post your moon shots here!

Arrr sillouetted tree's, you can also get a very similar effect but alot more colourful if you try this same shot but with a sunset always focus on the tree and branches get them nice n sharp!

Hey, yes have a few of sunset/rise with trees/object shadowed in the foreground, very attractive to the eye give a nice sharp contrast, but was looking more for the vampire look in that photo as there were light clouds above and below. I guess maybe a little PS cut & paste with two images may be the answer