Mooning

[Julian de'Courcy]

Realised that it was near full moon and thought I'd take one of those moon shots that show craters and landscape scaring. Its harder than I imagined so gave up. Yet as the cloud passed I did take a shot that in the end, was I thought, the best result of the evening. Best thing was being outside watching the moon. I was amazed at how fast it travels I had to keep moving the tripod to keep it in the frame. A flip out screen helped for this one.


P8300023 by JuliandeCourcy, on Flickr

 

[Chris Dodkin]

That's a very moody moon shot Julian - very Twilight!

Apparently the Moon is doing 2,288 miles per hour - so nice job on keeping up with it!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

And we are moving fairly fast ourselves...

I really love this shot, Julian. I wish I could do moon shots, but all I get is a white blob. Do you use a filter?

I love the way the moon here is surrounded by dark cloud...very moody.

 

[Pete Askew]

Lovely shot Julian and all the more effective due to the clouds and their slight coverage of the face.

 

[Davie Hudson]

That's very nice indeed, very much a werewolf moon

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

That is fast Chris. Rob I had never done moon shots before. I had some stupid notion in my head about using a slow shutter speed as its dark and of course soon came to find out how bright the moon really is and this varied a lot depending on the cloud. By cloud I mean, an amount that was barely visible and only with the live view with 14x magnification could you just make out a wisp of cloud. The sky looked clear yet altering the shutter speed from 1/320 to 1/4000 with an iso of 200. By the time this photo was taken when proper visible cloud appeared the shutter was at about 1/6. No idea what aperture as I was using the canon 400 f5.6. Used the 2sec timer in live view. What did help a lot was being able to have the live view LCD screen pulled out flat.Thanks Pete and Dave, I had to cut my nails this morning, no idea why they grew so much last night.

 

[Patrick Wilson]

To be able to photograph the Moon, you must understand it better than taking an occasional peek at it whenever you’re outdoors. The best way to start is to study a moon calendar, which will reveal its many phases and its positions in the night sky in relation to your latitude on Earth. With that information, you can observe it during a number of consecutive nights to formulate some ideas of how and when you might want to photograph it.

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Bye Bye Patrick

 

[Dave Green]

Yes Patrick thanks - but do you like Julian's photo?

Fine shot J!

 

[Hamish Gill]

Its a great shot btw Julian
You must have a good understanding of the moon

 

[Beth Carter]

but i thought the moon was made of cheese, not spam..

wonderful textures and drama.

 

[Darren Bradnock]

Nice shot, i like it. Try it when it's not a full moon so it's side lit creating shadows from the craters making them stand out even more.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Oh, I missed the spam!

 

[Paul Lange]

Nice shot even better for the clouds I think. I have been told to spot meter the moon and expose for daylight. If you think about it its the sunny F16 rule for bright sun shinning on the subject.

 

[Kev Pugh]

Agreed nice shot and the clouds make it..also agree with Paul. shoot as in day light 1/125 @ f5.6/f8....

 

[Brian Moore]

Apparently the Moon is doing 2,288 miles per hour - so nice job on keeping up with it!

Your panning skills are amazing, Julian. Wonderful shot!

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Nice shot, i like it. Try it when it's not a full moon so it's side lit creating shadows from the craters making them stand out even more.

Geees thanks Darren just shows how stupid I am. I did wonder why I was not getting that crater look, quite as well as I have seen from other photo's. See, more to mooning than meets the eye.
From my understanding a lot of folk stack images from video, not certain quite how this method works. A bit fiddly.