Tips for photographing tonight's "Super Moon"

13 years 1 month ago #37584 by Yasko


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13 years 1 month ago #37590 by HawaiiGuy

Yasko wrote:


Very nice, what size lens did you have on?


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13 years 1 month ago - 13 years 1 month ago #37591 by Yasko
Thanks. This was a 400mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter on a Canon 50D. 1/180 second shutter, f8.0, ISO 100

It's cropped ofcourse...


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13 years 1 month ago #37619 by Chewy
All my shots of the moon looked like little white dots :pinch: I wish I had seen this thread first!


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13 years 1 month ago #37644 by chasrich

Chewy wrote: All my shots of the moon looked like little white dots :pinch: I wish I had seen this thread first!


Tonight is another night and the moon is almost full tonight. If it is clear I might try again...

“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light, I just make pictures… ” ~ Vernon Trent
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13 years 1 month ago #37839 by wedding 2015

Baydream wrote: My club in Canada sent this advice along.

"I remind you that when you are photographing the moon, you are really photographing reflected sunlight and therefore you need to manually set your camera with daytime settings.
If you don't, the moon will simply appear as bright disc when you photograph it. If you want to record the surface detail of the moon, you will need to remember the "sunny 16" rule.
This rule tells us that on a bright, sunny day, we can achieve a correct exposure by setting the camera to f16 and the shutter speed to the inverse of the ISO setting. So at an ISO
setting of 200, the following combinations should give you correct exposures for the moon.

f 5.6 - 1/1600s, f 8 -1/800s, f11 - 1/400s, f 16 - 1/200s, f 22 - 1/100s"


Thanks for the tips. Too bad, I didn't join the forum last week, to get the tips for the full moon. Oh well, I didn't get to see the moon anyways.


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