Gotcha Mister moon!
9Saturday 18 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
After numerous attempts over the past year or so I had failed miserably to capture any half decent moon-shots (apart from those displayed by Uncle Baldrick upon his annual visitation to the farm; but that’s a whole other story).
On the eve of the recent full moon (or thereabouts), I tried again, tweaking some settings and hey-presto, the glowing white blob I normally manage to capture has at last been superseded by something more akin to what I had been aiming for.
Here are two slightly different shots that I wanted to share…. Happy Spike at last
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Beautiful shot! I would be immensely proud of those two!!
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That’s made my day, thanks 😀
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Great photo!
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Photographically speaking the moon has been vexing me for quite some time too. Care to share your settings Uncle Spike?
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Never thought I’d ever be asked such info, lol… see the reply to Ladybuggz just now: not very inspiring stuff, but tiz the truth sir :).
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Ok, here we go…. found the metadata stuff that my camera so cleverly writes down for people like me (in the Properties/details info on the file data)…. hope this helps.
F-stop: f/5.6
ISO speed: ISO-200
Exposure Time: 1/160 sec (1st image), 1/150 sec (2nd image)
Aperture: 3.26
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wow … aaaahhhhwoooooooo woof
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I tried to think where a moon would be so large and so close at this time of the year, then I re- read where you live,, makes sense to me now! Great Picture! I’m still trying to figure out how not to get just a blob of light!!
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Being a very technical semi-pro photographer (not)… after 4 years I found the ‘Night (Tripod)’ setting on my pretty basic camera. It takes a much longer exposure than the usual ‘night’ setting, so I rested the camera on the balcony railings and held my breath for 30 seconds (lol). Apart from that, not a clue 😀
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