300mm (heavily cropped) 1/20 at f/8.0
After watching some episodes of the Discovery Channel's bluray "NASA's Greatest Missions" I have regained interest in the Moon and space in general. A very clear night Saturday gave me the opportunity to take some shots. Getting a combination of setting that worked proved rather more difficult. I will certainly be trying this again during full moon, when it's clear!
Incidentally, the series is excellent and I would certainly recommend it to anyone with any sort of interest in space exploration.
Very nice work John, you managed to get some good details in the craters, and exposures good, nice framing as well rather than it being slap bang in the middle of the image
ReplyDeleteI dont think full moon shots are as interesting as partial moon shots as you dont seem to get much details/shadows in the craters.
Ive done quite a few moon shots, Ive also brought the colour, out in them,
Heres a tutorial on how to do it http://www.colormoon.pt.to/ Its not by me but, hope you find it useful
Dave
Yeah, I know you lose the detail, I guess it's just something I want to get :-)
ReplyDeleteCheers for the link by the way. I read something over the weekend on exposures, the guy was suggesting 1/100 at f/11 and ISO100. I just can't see how I could have got away with that exposure in this shot, 1/20 at f/8 and ISO100...
I have a teleconverter, might give that a go next time. Though it's a cheapo one, and I would imagine it would take away most of the point in using an "L" telephoto!
John