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11/06/2003 12:25:26 PM · #1 |
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.
Usualy a 25 second+ exposure.
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11/06/2003 12:35:44 PM · #2 |
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.
Message edited by author 2003-11-06 13:45:17.
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11/06/2003 02:03:39 PM · #3 |
I shot this image of the Moon through my binoculars with the following setting: f 11, ISO 200, 1/100 sec. time, 19mm focal length.
Without the binoculars, the moon would be just smaller, that's all.
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11/06/2003 02:29:00 PM · #4 |
Took this shot of the moon just resting the camera on the top of my car.
I think it was taken using the full manual mode.
1/1000 sec
F/5.6
ISO 100
300mm
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11/06/2003 02:45:46 PM · #5 |
Cool shot, Tom. You know, if you played with the curves a little and then flood filled the moon, it would look like a not-quite-ripe orange.
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11/06/2003 03:03:35 PM · #6 |
I took a few moon pics during the May 15 lunar eclipse.
Here are the moon pics
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.
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11/06/2003 03:36:29 PM · #7 |
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. |
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11/06/2003 03:40:21 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by dr rick:
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.
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11/06/2003 04:25:19 PM · #9 |
here are pics I took of the last lunar eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
and if the clouds cooperate I will be shooting the one this Saturday as well
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11/06/2003 04:30:46 PM · #10 |
It's supposed to be raining all weekend out here ... I took some the last eclipse, but with only 3x it's mostly a funny blob :(
Message edited by author 2003-11-06 16:33:40. |
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11/11/2003 09:45:09 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by jab119:
here are pics I took of the last lunar eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
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. |
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11/11/2003 10:39:18 AM · #12 |
Wow! I am impressed with all these shots. I could never get a good shot of the moon with my camera. Way to go guys and gals!
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11/11/2003 10:50:14 AM · #13 |
I took this shot of the moon using a VERY large zoom lense about 30 some years ago...
Well, actually, this was going to be my Book Title (From the Earth to the Moon) entry, but I guess I'll go with plan B. |
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11/11/2003 10:57:16 AM · #14 |
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.
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11/11/2003 11:20:37 AM · #15 |
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.
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11/11/2003 11:37:31 AM · #16 |
Here is a moon picture that I took of an orange moon:
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11/11/2003 11:39:24 AM · #17 |
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.
Message edited by author 2003-11-11 12:04:14.
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11/11/2003 11:46:43 AM · #18 |
My "Blue Moon" was taken through a 20x spotting scope, at 2.5, 100 asa and speed 100. During the day.
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11/11/2003 11:48:50 AM · #19 |
| These are all great, might as well throw mine in too. Soft, but kind of neat, anyway. |
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11/11/2003 12:56:52 PM · #20 |
Everyone has some great pictures and very good links with recources!
Message edited by author 2003-11-11 12:59:44.
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11/11/2003 01:26:24 PM · #21 |
| 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? |
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11/11/2003 02:19:23 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by Olympian:
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. |
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11/11/2003 02:23:46 PM · #23 |
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11/11/2003 02:30:37 PM · #24 |
Taken pre-eclipse on Saturday night. Canon D60, Canon 75-300 IS lens handheld, 1/125@F13, iso400.
I have another photo in my portfolio half way thru the eclipse also.
Message edited by author 2003-11-11 14:31:05.
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11/11/2003 02:42:44 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by Olympian:
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?
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