As I'm still having trouble finding time to get out to take new shots, here's another older shot. I took this picture on the evening of New Year's Day in 2007.
Moon shots are more difficult than I ever would have expected. I fully utilized my camera's optical zoom for these shots in order to capture as much detail as possible. However, even with a tripod, it becomes difficult to keep the moon in the view at that magnification.
Additionally, the fuller the moon, the brighter the reflection off of the moon. As a result, I was using extremely fast shutter speeds for these shots, typically at least 1/500 second. On a full moon, even my maximum shutter speed of 1/1000 second is often too long to capture any detail, in which case the moon comes out looking like a big white ball without discernible features.
2 comments:
Thanks for the shutter speed tip. I would not have thought of jacking it up in order to capture the detail.
Well, as far as I know, that's only true with bright objects. You could probably accomplish the same thing by using a higher f stop on your aperture. It just a matter of avoiding bleaching out overly bright parts of the image.
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