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Subscribe“Look at the rising moon. It looks fantastic !”, I received an SMS from Gauri at around 2250 hrs.
Next 90 minutes were spent experimenting with various settings. By the time I could get the pictures right, the moon was atleast 30° above horizon and I had consumed over 30 shots.
Technique:
[Disclaimer: I'm barely a beginer] At night we tend to shoot at low shutter speeds in order to expose the dark objects just right. The moon, however is a very bright object, and slow shutter speed will overexpose it. So you need to use a faster speed for the moon in isolation, a trick not achievable by a non-SLR camera.
I attempted to balance these contradictions using the ‘Manual’ settings. By setting the shutter speed between ranges 1/150 - 1/300 and Aperture at f5.5 - f6.0 I could get optimum photographs. All this at ISO 200. Trouble is, this will work only in sky-and-moon shots. To capture any objecct-sky-moon, Av should be lowered.
I believe anything better than this would require better equipment ! Tripod is on my list !
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Can u convert this pic into links to the original size???
Original picture is a huge black sky with moon of the same size as seen here. I’ve simply cropped the rest of the sky out.
hey a great attempt at the moon, i had tried with a shaky tripod(a good heavy tripod is on my list!) and tried to get one, you can see this here.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2667862
keep at it. both of us would one day get a great shot here.
..paul
thank for you kind comments. you had asked about the camera that i had used for the moon, it was a d70.
..paul