Taking pics of the moon.......

[Gib#244]

I have a 400d with a sigma 70-300mm lens. Find it fantastic for taking pics of things in the distance.
Tonight the moon looks really cool and thought I'd have a go at taking some pics....... they came out shocking! had look about photographing the moon and it seems hard!

What sort of settings are best??? I have a tri-pod - tried all the setting i could but nothing came out good

Rich

 

[Nick_P]

Fast shutter speed, highish aperture, focus on infinity

 

[Moz168]

Change your camera to spot meter then you can expose accurately for the moon. But because there is such a difference in the brightness of the moon and the area around it, you wont be able to expose for both in the same frame, unless you area around it was bright light a city skyline. Or is it just the detail in the moon your after?

You'll want a small aperture to have a large depth of field, id say between f/11 to f/16, going high that that I find you get lens diffraction/fringing of colours.

Look up bracketing.

 

[Rhino172]

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?497725-Shooting-the-moon

 

[Gib#244]

Just the detail of the moon really looks really
Good!! That's all I was getting before a large light!

 

[theduck]

1/100 shutter speed, job done.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Treat it as if it was the Sun (well, almost!)

Treating it like the stars is no good .. long exposure will end up being blurry cos the damn thing moves so fast !

 

[Scott™]

I must stress lads, anyone wanting to shoot the moon then tonight is THE night. Its the closest full moon it's going to be for the last 70 years. And you want to catch it at moonrise or moonset as the atmosphere makes it appear bigger than it is.

If you wish to know when moonrise/set is here is an excellent link

http://www.sunrisesunsetmap.com/

 

[Christopher.]

Gonna be out there tonight for a few shots.

Done with my d3000, 300m lens, then cropped

 

[PinkoCommie]

Here's one of mine from a couple of weeks back.

405D Tamron 70-300mm, cloudy night.
1/25th second
f5
Cropped.

 

[PinkoCommie]

I must stress lads, anyone wanting to shoot the moon then tonight is THE night. Its the closest full moon it's going to be for the last 70 years. And you want to catch it at moonrise or moonset as the atmosphere makes it appear bigger than it is.

If you wish to know when moonrise/set is here is an excellent link

http://www.sunrisesunsetmap.com/

It's not that much bigger. Only 2% larger than normal, which isn't a lot at all. Full moon is pretty much the worst time for interesting shots of the moon, they look far too flat, you get much more interesting shots with a waxing or waning crescent as you get much more definition around the terminator.

 

[Clouder]

Tonight is the night, closest the moon has been to use for over 20 years...

 

[PinkoCommie]

1993 is the last closest which was 356529 km, this year is 356577 km, and the next one to beat that is in 2016 which is 356511 km.

 

[And]

I'm having a real problem with the moon shots, these are mine from a ride out to scarbouogh, alittle helpfull advice would be good?

IMG_0147 by apicken21, on Flickr

IMG_0123 by apicken21, on Flickr

IMG_0103 by apicken21, on Flickr

IMG_0098 by apicken21, on Flickr

 

[Nick_P]

Not that I have actually taken any shots of the moon myself but I would say that its impossible to get detail in the moon and the foreground in one shot.

The moon is actually really bright so the only way to do it is to expose the moon properly and then the foreground. Then photoshop them.
Or I guess you could fill flash the subject. Or perhaps double exposure?


Although I do like how 0123 looks, bar the blurred foreground.

 

[SamP]

First exposure was for the moon and the second for the snow. Only real way to do it tbh.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

I'm having a real problem with the moon shots, these are mine from a ride out to scarbouogh, alittle helpfull advice would be good?

Depends what you were trying to achieve ?

You're never going to get a crisp shot of the moon at 18mm and >3s exposure

Look around on Flickr, find some photos you like the look of and check the exif data.

Like I said above, treat it like the Sun, as essentially it's reflecting the brightness of the Sun... Also, it moves bloody fast haha ! It moves at over a kilometer per second so things are going to get blurry quickly !

 

[Scott™]

First exposure was for the moon and the second for the snow. Only real way to do it tbh.

Super shot mate, layered your two shots?

 

[Nick_P]

lol, its not his fella but yea i do believe its 2 shots layered

 

[Scott™]

Ahhh I thought it was.

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

First exposure was for the moon and the second for the snow. Only real way to do it tbh.

Epic pic that!

 

[Feirny]

I'm having a real problem with the moon shots, these are mine from a ride out to scarbouogh, alittle helpfull advice would be good?

IMG_0147 by apicken21, on Flickr

IMG_0123 by apicken21, on Flickr

IMG_0103 by apicken21, on Flickr

IMG_0098 by apicken21, on Flickr

<3 How I miss Scarborough.

 

[SamP]

lol, its not his fella but yea i do believe its 2 shots layered

Ahhh I thought it was.

Yeah its not mine, came up on talk photography a while back and I happened to remember it! Taken with a 300 2.8 with a 2x TC on IIRC. 2 shots layered, only way to get detail on both really as theres no way you can capture that much dynamic range on a camera.

Epic pic that!

+1!