How does one take a picture of the moon? I ahve tried endless times and it always comes back as a big white blob. I have tried all the metering methods.
The moon is just like any other object illuminated by the full sun. You can use the sunny f16 rule and figure the exposure that way.
Ex: With ISO 50 and assuming an aperture of f8, that will give you a shutter speed of 1/100s.
This will make the moon kind of dark (its actual color), so you may want to overexpose from that a couple of stops. If you are relying on the camera's meter, the dark sky is having too much influence on the exposure reading and overexposing the moon way too much.
I used a tripod and my 75-300mm lens. All those shots are cropped from the original. I don't recall the settings but I think the shutter speed was relatively fast, ie. 1/250. The moon gives out a suprisingly large amount of light, especially at full moon. If you shoot the moon with anything slower than 1/30 of a sec, you'll probably get motion blur.
There will be another lunar eclipse this Saturday night or Sunday morning (depending on where you live). Eclipses can be challenging to photograph.
Here's a NASA link that gives information and times for those that live in the U.S.; Europeans will have to convert from UST and it won't be visible from Eastern Asia or Australia.
There will be another lunar eclipse this Saturday night or Sunday morning (depending on where you live). Eclipses can be challenging to photograph.
Here's a NASA link that gives information and times for those that live in the U.S.; Europeans will have to convert from UST and it won't be visible from Eastern Asia or Australia.
I'd love to see it, lunar eclipses are beautiful. Though around here, we'll probably have thick clouds.
and if the clouds cooperate I will be shooting the one this Saturday as well
James
Hi jab119;
I folow this link... but had an URL Not Found!
I shot the 11/08 eclipse, but unfortunatelly no t in the best total. I would like to see your pictures.
25 second? damn. You can get detail from the moon at 1/80 of a second (full moon) Look at my profile //www.dpchallenge.com/profile.php and you can see some that I took, 2 through a telescope and 1 handheld. They are of the last eclipse on Nov 8, 2003.
The only luck that I have had taken pictures of the moon is with a video camera or when the moon is full and you can see it right before night fall or if I add a roof top or trees in it. But then again I am not using quality cameras either. I just like the moon, and it is probably the most insparational subjects in my life next to the creater of the universe. So I keep trying to do better in all areas of my life.
Here is a montage of photos I took during the May 2003 eclipse.
eclipse I took a bunch of shots this past weekend, too, but I'm not done with processing them - I'm going to make a rising/waning sequence. By the way, I used the optical zoom to its max (380 mm), played with the digital zoom, and got best results at ISO 50, F8, and shutter speeds between 1/15 and 1/80, depending on how the eclipse progressed. However, at those slow speeds, I don't get the detail some of these other photos show.
Did anyone notice the difference in crater positioning on two different photos(like Jacko's and timlewis1980's photos)? If you bring them up together you can see the difference. I wonder if that is because of photographers location or the date and time?
Did anyone notice the difference in crater positioning on two different photos(like Jacko's and timlewis1980's photos)? If you bring them up together you can see the difference. I wonder if that is because of photographers location or the date and time?
More than likely it is one was using telescope. The mirrors will reverse the image on either one or two axises. For mine, it mirrors left/right and up/down depending on the eyepiece corrector I use.
Did anyone notice the difference in crater positioning on two different photos(like Jacko's and timlewis1980's photos)? If you bring them up together you can see the difference. I wonder if that is because of photographers location or the date and time?
If you put them both together, resize and rotate. You can see there does seem to be a VERY slight difference between the two. If you look at the top right and bottom left of the two moons?
