I took this about 10:30pm on Saturday. The moon was bright and the sky was clear. It was shot with a Canon 7D, 500mm with a 1.4 teleconverter, 1/20 second at F16 on a tripod.
As you guys can see, it HELPS to have a LONG lens (500mm), coupled with a 1.4 teleconverter= (700mm) attached to a 1.5 (ish) cropped sensor camera = (1050mm). With this amount of magnification, I am wondering if 1/20th sec is too slow of a shutter speed to get a tack sharp image, because of how fast the moon moves. If the moon is visible tonight/tomorrow, try a few shots with the shutter speed starting at 1/125th sec, adjusting the aperture/ISO accordingly, review images on your computer screen at 300%, and then increase shutter speed to freeze moon movement. Once you get the exposure dialed in, how can you then make the composition more interesting? It would be interesting to shoot a series to photograph the moon at various angles of rise and phases, over a period of a few days, from the exact same location or other areas.
Nice! what settings did you use? did you shoot with a long lens?
ReplyDeleteAs you guys can see, it HELPS to have a LONG lens (500mm), coupled with a 1.4 teleconverter= (700mm) attached to a 1.5 (ish) cropped sensor camera = (1050mm). With this amount of magnification, I am wondering if 1/20th sec is too slow of a shutter speed to get a tack sharp image, because of how fast the moon moves. If the moon is visible tonight/tomorrow, try a few shots with the shutter speed starting at 1/125th sec, adjusting the aperture/ISO accordingly, review images on your computer screen at 300%, and then increase shutter speed to freeze moon movement. Once you get the exposure dialed in, how can you then make the composition more interesting? It would be interesting to shoot a series to photograph the moon at various angles of rise and phases, over a period of a few days, from the exact same location or other areas.
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