Full moon tonight....

So I went and took some piccys...






Not really happy with them, was all done in a bit of a rush, and never done them before. Need more time and my heavy tripod....

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they look good and clear to me Mr Jelster

[Luckypants]

Nah, I reckom he nicked them off national geographic!

Excellent pics - thats some zoom lens youve got there!

Originally Posted by ArtyLady

Excellent pics - thats some zoom lens youve got there!

Actually, the moon was fairly large earlier tonight. It's only a 300mm, so not really a "big 'un'". Now if I had my mates 800mm lens, they would be well big !!

Problem is that the moon moves quite quickly across the sky, anything more than a 4 second exposure sees movement in the picture. That, combined with the fact that I only had my lightweight travel tripod in the car meant that most of my pictures look blurred.

[DarrenSV650S]

Good pics Jelster
You inspired me to get my camera out and have a mess about. I don't really know what I'm doing but I was amazed at how much light you can get at night!
It was totally dark when I took this. I used a 15 second exposure


That was with the camera sitting on the garden chair
I really need to get a decent stand for it!

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Good pics Jelster
I don't really know what I'm doing but I was amazed at how much light you can get at night!
It was totally dark when I took this. I used a 15 second exposure

Yep, a full moon on a clear night can give a lot more light than people think. That's a nice shot, with my long range lens anything longer than a 4 second exposure was showing the movement of the moon.

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That is a very good first attempt Steve. Try shooting at 1/250s, f11 and iso 200 and you will get decent handheld pics. Adjust the f stop to control the light entering camera. I got decent results doing that. What lens u used?

Originally Posted by TC3

What lens u used?

My Canon 70-300 IS lens. I was trying to get the F stop down, hoping that it would provide more detail. Thinking about it, I don't why now... Like, it's not as if I need any depth of field, It's only 100's of thousands of miles away

(and my lens wasn't at the end of the focal range either... Christ knows what Canon think I'm going to focus on if the moon's not far enough away... Maybe I should have stepped back a little )

Originally Posted by Jelster

My Canon 70-300 IS lens. I was trying to get the F stop down, hoping that it would provide more detail. Thinking about it, I don't why now... Like, it's not as if I need any depth of field, It's only 100's of thousands of miles away

(and my lens wasn't at the end of the focal range either... Christ knows what Canon think I'm going to focus on if the moon's not far enough away... Maybe I should have stepped back a little )

Well you know most lenss perform best stopped down 2 stops rather than wide open in terms of sharpness. A lot of people normally expose the moon for too long so a faster shutter speed will help not burn out detail.