2011 Daily Photos
March 9, 2011- I wanted to try something different with my moon shots. I was playing around with settings and to write up something for all that asked how I do this. This is very simple. I handhold but I bet if you use a tripod it would be better. I don’t have any special trick, I only played with the camera to get my shots, in the beginning last year I took a few hundred shots every time I tried this, until I got it right and found the settings I use now. I sometimes still play with the settings at different phases of the moon. I still don’t have it down to a science yet, but at least I am not taking several hundred shots each time. I take up to a dozen (big difference) and that is because I don’t trust what I see on my LCD screen, and I start to play around. I basically follow these settings:
full moon: ISO: 400 1/500 sec @f/16
half moon: ISO: 400 1/500 sec @f/11
Crescent moon: ISO: 400 1/125 sec @f/8
These are just guide lines I use. I do stray away from these from time to time. Such as today’s picture. I wrote the settings on the picture. I would have thought that the bottom moon would have shown more details in the craters but it looks like the top moon picture seems to have a tad more details. So after I get the settings right on the camera I aim and shoot. That’s it! Then I crop the photos to the size I want, very little tweaking if any. Hope this helped some.
(Day 68 #365Project @sharkbayte)
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Dave
on May 14, 2011Given the distance to the moon, changing the f/stop should have no effect.
fotoeffects
on March 10, 2011Wow! Some amazing detail on the moon in 3x!
photofreak
on March 10, 2011Awesome shots... Thanks for sharing the info!
webstersway
on March 10, 2011Awesome!!!
Beth Branyon
on March 10, 2011Nice work!
Howard's Photography
on March 10, 2011Superb! Thanks for sharing your info.
Andrea Kaus (ChaosGraphics)
on March 10, 2011Fantastic and thanks for sharing your settings. I have to give it a try now too.
papamugger
on March 10, 2011outstanding
Tim Voss
on March 10, 2011Excellent!
Tom Reichert
on March 10, 2011Awesome presentation !