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01/17/2006 12:50:57 PM · #1 |
I would like to take a good detailed picture of the a full moon. I'm using a Canon EOS Rebel 350 XT. The pictures sometimes come out to bright and I lose the detail. Do I need to lower the time of exporsure? and or what else can I do.
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01/17/2006 12:58:42 PM · #2 |
The moon is just another sunlit object, so the "sunny f16" rule applies, but you probably don't want the true color of the moon, because it's actually a very dark grey. Try f8 and 1/80 or so.
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01/17/2006 01:46:32 PM · #3 |
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01/17/2006 01:49:54 PM · #4 |
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01/17/2006 01:52:03 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by lennyV:
I would like to take a good detailed picture of the a full moon. I'm using a Canon EOS Rebel 350 XT. The pictures sometimes come out to bright and I lose the detail. Do I need to lower the time of exporsure? and or what else can I do.
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LennyV |
Here is one that I took a couple nights ago with my 300D and a Sigma 80-400mm lens. It was taken at 400mm F 9.0, 1/250 s, ISO 200
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09/05/2006 09:06:42 PM · #6 |
This is a superb resource!
In the Western Hemisphere we have coming up two consecutive nights of near-full Moons, each with about 98% illumination -- waxing Wednesday night, and waning on Thursday.
For quick info on local Sun/Moon rise and set times check out this ephemeris calculator at the US Naval Observatory. |
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09/05/2006 09:08:23 PM · #7 |
| You don't say what lens you're using, or whether you're using a telescope or not. The above advice is all good. The moon is a very bright object, and most people make the mistake of over exposing. |
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09/05/2006 09:14:41 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
You don't say what lens you're using, or whether you're using a telescope or not. The above advice is all good. The moon is a very bright object, and most people make the mistake of over exposing. |
Me? I'm just using the built-in zoom on my S3 -- I think it's a 420mm equivalent at the long end of the 12x zoom. Tripod and timer are in the plans, but at the shutter-speeds I was getting I could probably shoot hand-held, e.g. my starting exposure is going to be ISO 80 ΓΆ€ΒΆ f/8.0 ΓΆ€ΒΆ 1/400 second.
I might try to bracket if I shoot when there's a nice skyline : ) |
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09/05/2006 09:26:46 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by strangeghost:
You don't say what lens you're using, or whether you're using a telescope or not. The above advice is all good. The moon is a very bright object, and most people make the mistake of over exposing. |
Me? |
No, sorry. Comments intended for OP. |
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09/05/2006 09:27:06 PM · #10 |
I took this shot last night. 300MM at F 5.6, 1/250 sec. ISO 200. Handheld, I find if I need to take 20 pictures to get 1 good one it's no problem. I played around with the speed, down to 1/160 to a high of 1/500 and I liked the 1/250 best. Thinking about it now the F 5.6 isn't the sweet spot of my lens, should have been over F 8.
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09/05/2006 09:29:26 PM · #11 |
Went outside to take shot of moon because of this thread.
All I see are clouds. Will check again tomorrow.
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09/05/2006 09:41:22 PM · #12 |
| I put a polarizer on my lens and got wonderful shots of the moon! |
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09/05/2006 09:42:39 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by mystopia:
I put a polarizer on my lens and got wonderful shots of the moon! |
Will a polarizer get rid of clouds?
:)
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09/05/2006 09:45:11 PM · #14 |
| Hahaha James .. I'm afraid not. I went out a bit ago and it is all clouded over here too. |
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09/05/2006 09:47:58 PM · #15 |
Anybody have any shots of Pluto before it stopped being a planet? :P
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09/05/2006 09:49:29 PM · #16 |
| Cloudy here to. Think its supposed to clear up tomorrow I hope. The Moon is a great Model, its always hanging around. |
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09/05/2006 09:49:57 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by yanko:
Anybody have any shots of Pluto before it stopped being a planet? :P |
Yeah I heard it wanted to be part of another group becuase it had a fight with all the other planets.
;)
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09/05/2006 10:02:29 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
The moon is just another sunlit object, so the "sunny f16" rule applies, but you probably don't want the true color of the moon, because it's actually a very dark grey. Try f8 and 1/80 or so.
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I have been told by more than one person who is in a position to know (Ctein, if you want to check his cred. out) that you should actually open up one stop for a proper moon exposure, so it would actually be "sunny f/11" rule. I had prior to that thought the sunny f/16 was correct.
BTW if the moon is actually a very dark grey, why doesn't it look that way reflecting normal sunlight? Just curious. |
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09/05/2006 10:04:41 PM · #19 |
legal in Basic ;) 3x 1/1250 sec f/4 overlayed in camera ...
maybe i should have saved it for rule of thirds ;)
that moon expoure page was bang on (except it dosn't like speeds above 1/1000 )
nice resource
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09/05/2006 10:07:44 PM · #20 |
| I wonder what happens to those Scorpios that have the ruling Planet Pluto???? |
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09/05/2006 10:13:41 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by mystopia:
I wonder what happens to those Scorpios that have the ruling Planet Pluto???? |
The same thing which happened to them before 1930 or whenever it was discovered? |
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09/05/2006 10:16:26 PM · #22 |
If it wasn't discovered then how could it have been made their ruling planet? :-)
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by mystopia:
I wonder what happens to those Scorpios that have the ruling Planet Pluto???? |
The same thing which happened to them before 1930 or whenever it was discovered? |
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09/06/2006 11:03:39 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by lennyV:
I would like to take a good detailed picture of the a full moon. I'm using a Canon EOS Rebel 350 XT. The pictures sometimes come out to bright and I lose the detail. Do I need to lower the time of exporsure? and or what else can I do.
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LennyV |
Lenny was wondering if you got that Moon shot yet. I think you need to be on manual and set the f number to F8 or so and the shutter speed to 1/250 sec. Use a tripod and a remote shutter release or use the timer so the camera will settle down. Use center spot focusing and let the camera do the focusing.
Heres another one I took tonight.
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09/07/2006 12:15:10 AM · #24 |
I appreciate the exposures mentioned here in this thread. I shot the moon tonight with my 30D and the Bigma. Set the ISO at 200, and the shutter speed at 1/250. I think it turned out pretty good for just resting the camera on a rail (tripod was in the truck).
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09/07/2006 12:20:26 AM · #25 |
| I'm having lousy luck with overcast -- just enough to mess up both exposure and focus ... : ( |
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