ORANGE MOON - DPChallenge Forums

07/30/2007 10:06:21 PM · #1

I see an orange moon, any one else???? My camera is not good enough to get it, I hope some body gets a picture of it, and posts it. Harvest moon, maybe.....

geoffb

07/30/2007 10:07:11 PM · #2

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Looks like it's more than capable.

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07/30/2007 10:08:05 PM · #3

not sure, I am not very good.......

geoffb

07/30/2007 10:10:39 PM · #4

Take a picture of the moon and observe the shutter speed and aperture.

Now, go to manual mode and slowly close down the aperture (make the number bigger; so if the first picture is f/4, make it f/5.6, for example), drop the shutter speed (e.g. 1/30 to 1/60), or both.

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strangeghost

Canon EOS-7D

07/30/2007 10:11:54 PM · #5

Harvest moon won't be until October (too lazy to look it up).

rex

Canon PowerShot SD780

07/30/2007 10:12:19 PM · #6

Took this one is '06. I added the water though. But I shot the moon when it was like this.

srdanz

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

07/30/2007 10:12:26 PM · #7

Or better, go straight to ISO 100, f/16 and 1/125 shutter...

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED

07/30/2007 10:13:54 PM · #8

I got one, I'll need a sec to upload and post......

Nald

Nikon D700

07/30/2007 10:14:06 PM · #9

Your camera supports Manual mode.

See here

You can see in this photo I took of the moon I shot it at f9 1/250 of a second at ISO 250.

Use a tripod put your camera in Manual mode and just start playing around with your shutter speed and aperture. You'll get great results.

brownsm

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

07/30/2007 10:14:21 PM · #10

Try the Sunny 16 rule. f16 with a shutter speed of 1/ISO. So for ISO 100, f16 and speed of 1/100. Should be very close.

Sony DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Aspherical ED High Magnification Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha

07/30/2007 10:23:34 PM · #11

ha ha here we go, kinda boring and blurry. but my very 1st moon shot...

whiterook

Sony DSLR-A700

07/30/2007 10:23:40 PM · #12

Originally posted by liberty:

not sure, I am not very good.......

You got a nice camera. It took me couple years to realize how to use my camera. Its just take time and practice with camera. Good luck look at PAsm button to change the aperture to manual. It is very tricky at first.

riversong

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

07/30/2007 10:25:55 PM · #13

Oh, it's still daylight here in the pacific nw. I'll be sure to take my camera outside tonight. Love your moon shots! Thanks for the heads-up.

khdoss

Nikon D300

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Nikon

07/30/2007 10:42:17 PM · #14

I have one of those.. with the same water..

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

07/30/2007 11:25:16 PM · #15

Shaytech Moon Exposure Calculator

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

07/30/2007 11:27:31 PM · #16

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Shaytech Moon Exposure Calculator

Hmm. Doesn't really match my experiencel I wonder if it depends on SLR vs. point and shoot? I typically start around f/4 and 1/100, ISO 100 and see how it looks.

Thanks to liberty for starting this thread - you got me to finally go download a planetarium program to see where the moon will rise.

I've been wanting to reshoot this in camera, instead of compositing it:

And it looks like the moon will be rising mighty close to where I need it on Thursday! :)

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GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

07/30/2007 11:35:00 PM · #17

Originally posted by levyj413:

Originally posted by GeneralE:
Shaytech Moon Exposure Calculator

Hmm. Doesn't really match my experiencel I wonder if it depends on SLR vs. point and shoot? I typically start around f/4 and 1/100, ISO 100 and see how it looks.

Thanks to liberty for starting this thread - you got me to finally go download a planetarium program to see where the moon will rise.

Yes, I only use that exposure calculator as a starting point. With an EVF (as in my Canon) system, you can see the result of the exposure settings before you capture the image.

For sun/moon rising and setting times, I find the Naval Observatory's Sun/Moon Data look-up page very handy. If you want specific locations of celestial objects at certain times, you can use NASA's Ephemeris Generator

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

07/30/2007 11:47:46 PM · #18

Paul, that's the moonrise page I've used, too. :)

The ephemeris page is too complex for me and seems to be tables. I used
Hallo northern sky planetarium to find a date/time when the moon would rise due east, as I need it to if I want to shoot from the Iwo Jima Memorial toward the U.S. Capitol. It has pretty easy-to-use controls to step forward/backward by a minute, hour, or day. I just flipped through time until I found one when it was rising due east. Turned out to be three days from now. :)

From some reading I did, it seems it crosses the same spot on the horizon twice/month, but one of those might be in the daytime.

Using Homeplanet, you set your location and the date/time, and it can show you a picture of the horizon in any direction. I just used that to confirm what Hallo told me, because while it's good at showing you a picture, I didn't find it nearly as easy to skim through time looking for what I wanted.

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GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

07/30/2007 11:56:49 PM · #19

I think I found that software recently too, but haven't had time to try it -- good to hear that it's a useful tool!

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

07/31/2007 12:05:18 AM · #20

Ooooooooo - I just did a quick composite of two 100% crops - one from the Iwo Jima of the Capitol and one of the moon, both at 200mm on my 70-200. And since I took these, I've bought a 1.4x teleconverter.

WOW. Looks like this could really produce a stunning composition - I'm certainly back far enough from the Capitol to get the relative sizes close to each other. In fact, the moon might even be too big. I sure hope I catch it for real! :)

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strangeghost

Canon EOS-7D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

07/31/2007 12:12:42 AM · #21

Good luck Jeffrey. I've been working for three years on getting my killer shot of the full (or nearly full) moon rising behind the Wisconsin capitol dome in Madison.

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With the kind of magnifications you're talking about, you're going to need a really precise "hit" with the rising moon's azimuth. That is not as easy to hit as you might think. You'll be lucky to get two or three per year in the same field of view (I don't know how much your composite is cropped). I'm giving a talk on my experience pursuing this shot in a few weeks at the Madison Astronomical Society meeting. I'll eventually write it up into an article.

Post your results this week!

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

07/31/2007 12:16:55 AM · #22

Originally posted by strangeghost:

Good luck Jeffrey.

Thanks. :) I sent you a PM just before I read your post! My composite was very cropped, so I'm pretty confident of getting them in the same frame. Dead on is another question.

Oh, and I'd say Madison Moonrise is pretty killer! What more do you want, so I know what to aim for?

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