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I had to wait for the moon to rise above the horizon's cloud cover, so I missed out on the colors......que sera, sera.
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I had to wait for the moon to rise above the horizon's cloud cover, so I missed out on the colors......que sera, sera.
Really nice, Bill!!! Maybe if I am patient it will make it
Great Shot, Bill.
Saw this GIANT yellow moon on the way home today and thought, GEEZ, I
Help! I am trying to shoot the moon (sorry) and all I am getting is a pure white ball. I have a 40D, set to Neutral picture style, 28-135 set to 135, (okay, so the ball is pretty small) and f/8.0, manual focus, AF off, ISO 100, 2 second self-timer release. I also tried to focus with Live View, and no dice. Through the viewfinder I can focus very well, but the shots are not working out. Oh yeah, using Av mode. The shutter speed is ending up at 2 seconds according to the info. Evaluative metering.
BillW,
Amazing shot, beautiful detail. I want to capture something like this, even if it means cropping. What focal length are you using?
Philip, you need to shoot the moon about at 1/60th or somewhere around there. Your meter is reading the night sky, but not the brightness of the moon. You need to shoot in manual. Experiment from there but that should work.
Nice shot Bill. What did you use?
I seem to be cursed by too many clouds tonight.[:@]
Phillip
Get in manual mode. F8 ISO 100 is fine.
You will have to adjust your shutter speed until you get decent exposures.
2 second is way to long, even on a tripod you will be getting motion blur from the moon at that length. But you really should be much less than 1 second.
Here is a sample of the full moon back when there was the full eclipse. Before the eclipse started
Exposure (1/640)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 700 mm
ISO Speed 100
Shutter speed was very fast. Your camera will not meter right, you have to take sample pics till you get the exposure you want.
Not Tonights Moon just a Sample
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Gotcha. So use manual to force the settings outside of "acceptable" limits for a normal shot. Even though I have a very good tripod, I understand that the motion blur can still happen because of the exposure length. Also, the moon is very bright, so I kind of thought it was taking too long. :)
Okay, so I went from this:
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To this:
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With your help! Thank you! Now I need a longer lens. I don't think 135mm is getting it done. [:(]
Phillip
135mm is going to be a little short. But you did get the exposure right.
Also, future reference. Full Moons are hard to get good detailed pics of. The light hits it straight a way and you can
It's cloudy here [:'(]
The moon requires a lot of focal length, and I think you've done pretty much what you can with 135mm.
The full moon is aesthetically appealing as Bill's *very* nice pic shows, but Rick is correct in saying that it is easier to see fine detail when the moon is somewhere between full and new:
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This was taken with a 12 1/2" Starmaster dobsonian (Carl Zambuto mirror). It's 3175mm f/10 (normally 1587 f/5 but I used a barlow here), cropped to about 6400mm full frame equiv. I took it at iso 400 to get a fastish 1/40 second shutter speed. The air- which limits sharpness when using a long focal length- was extremely steady that night. The blurry corners are due to coma (I've since purchased a corrector... if only I could have this one to do again).
I'll wait up a little longer... maybe the sky will clear.
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Thank you for the info. BTW, the more successful one was manual mode, 1/640, f/8.0, ISO 100, 135mm, manual focus adjusted in Live View, shot with mirror locked up on my Manfrotto 055CXPRO3/Bogen 3047. I also pushed the exposure in DPP to +1.33 since it seemed kind of dark without that adjustment but I wanted to keep the shutter speed fast.
I am going to try to catch it on the west side of the house at about 5AM. The view of the setting moon out of our kitchen window in the mornings is glorious! If I catch a good shot, I
Jon,
That is a spectacular shot. Artistic even. 6400mm!!! Holy cow. I am a long way from that. I was excited about the possibility of getting a 400mm f/5.6! That should make the image 3x the size it is for me now natively. In addition to the extra resolution at the same image size, I also figured I would benefit from the sharpness and contrast of a prime vs my kit lens. Plus, I love wildlife photography. I would also like a 1.4x extender.
Great shots all, I had a little bit of luck myself. Like the majority I couldn
Here's my results.
Nothing super about it. Just another picture of a full moon with a dark background. Didn't look any more super than any other full moon either. I've seen better!
The skies weren't as clear as I would have like with high thin clouds and thicker clouds closing in. Here are a couple shots that I took after it cleared the tops of the distant trees still low in the sky. About 8:25pm local EDT.
1. 50% crop when viewed at 1024 (grayscale)
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...FullMoon-1.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Tim_Kerr/FullMoon-1.jpg
2. 100% crop when viewed at 1024 (sRGB)
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...gb-100crop.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Tim_Kerr/FullMoon-19March2011-rgb-100crop.jpg
3. same 100%crop when viewed at 1024, converted to grayscale
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...le-100crop.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Tim_Kerr/FullMoon-19March2011-grayscale-100crop.jpg
Exif data
Camera Maker: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 50D
Lens: EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Image Date: 2011-03-19 20:25:47 -0400
Focal Length: 400.0mm
Focus Distance: 2147483647.00
Aperture: f/11.0
Exposure Time: 0.010 s (1/100)
ISO equiv: 100
Exposure Bias: none
Metering Mode: Spot
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
I wish I could have had clearer more steady conditions to get a sharper image, but as luck would have it mother nature had other ideas.. I was going to go back out when it reaches local meridian, but the clouds have pretty much closed the skies.
Sorry Phil.....I was in bed by the time you posted your question, but luckily there were other folks up that could help you.
My exif; 7D w/500 f4 IS, f10, 1/60, ISO 100
Tim here's a quick explanation of "super"; "While the names of many moon phases are rich in folklore, the supermoonbecame”super” because ofRichard Nolle – an astrologer with a flair for the dramatic"; predicted a particular full moon passing very close to earth would cause disastrous events.
It has currently become a common term in referencing the orbit of the moon when it comes very close to the earth, as in last night's moon. If I remember correctly, last night's was the closest in 19 years.
Jon, I totally agree that a partial moon is far more interesting to shoot....my particular favorite to shoot is the "Mac the Knife" moon (my name for it, shaped like finger nail) w/Venus lingering near by.
Thanks for looking and your comments folks.
Regards
Bill
I was crunching some numbers, and the moon (apparently about 33.2 arcminutes this time) would only fill the camera
So you're saying I should just go ahead and get the Canon 1200mm lens then. :)
Here is my result from this morning. It was getting to treetop level too quickly for me to get but one good shot without pine branches showing up. This is almost the same as last night's shots with the exception of 1/125 shutter speed and +0.17 Ev in DPP since the light reflected from the moon was much lower than last night.
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Nice shots everyone.
Here's mine from last night: (7D, 100-400L @ 400, 1/2000, f/8, ISO 800. Part of my brain appears to have shut off, with that shutter speed I should have dialed my ISO down or tried a polarizer filter. But, that is what happens when you are having fun [:D].
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To echo Kayaker---"Nice shots everyone"
Here is a couple I shot last night:
Moon coming up over the Monzano Mountains
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this one shot with the 500 and 1.4 extender
Bob...ummm....WOW.
Enjoying your new lens?[Y][:D]
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Thanks Kayaker, I am still trying to get the hang of it, simple things like mounting it on a tripod is awkward, remembering the controls on the lens and the size and weight certainly takes some getting used to, but all-in-all, I love this lens and it is worth every ounce of sweat it takes to haul it around.
Bob
Still not so super, but here are a few more from last night that I
ran through Photoshop today after getting some sleep. Maybe just a
little better, but not much. Can only do so much when conditions work
against you.
50%crop, f/11, ISO 100, 1/100s, with Canon 50D and 100-400mm IS L lens at 400mm.
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Tim_Kerr/20110319SM-fullmoon-01.jpg
Same exposure slightly different processing.
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Tim_Kerr/20110319SM-fullmoon-02.jpg
50%crop, f/11, ISO 200, 1/200s, with Canon 50D and 100-400mm IS L lens at 400mm. Less processing
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Tim_Kerr/20110319SM-fullmoon-03.jpg
In case you're wondering and haven't already noticed all these were shot using the Moony-11 Rule, aka Loony-11 rule, in full manual.
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Tkerr, Nice Job, I really like the framing and the dramatic look of the second image the best.
Bob
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Well, cropped to 6400. Really only 3750mm.
Thanks for the compliment. I wouldn't say artistic (though I don't mind a bit if you do [:)]), I just pointed at the moon and pressed the button. But air was still, which is really what is needed to get detail.
It did clear up last night, so I got to enjoy a nice view. I thought I'd try a shot without the barlow to get the whole moon- that would have been about 2000mm- but the camera won't come to focus without it. So I gave up. Should have taken a shot with just part of the full moon like Bob and some of the others. Really, I should have pulled out the AP130GT (819mm f/6.3) but I left my adapter at my dark site.
I took a few shots with the 70-200 and 2x barlow, but they aren't worth posting :)
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I didn't mean to say the partial moon is more interesting, just that you can get more detail. I love the full moon shots. This is a great thread!
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Ah, so I just need the 1200mm, and then I could stack a 1.4x and a 2.0x and I almost have it! [:D]
Don't sell yourself short, I thought the composition was very good. The way you situated the shot so that the curvature of the moon arcs across the frame is excellent, in my humble opinion.
Here is a shot that my brother took of the moon last night, but I processed it.
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It only required very slight cropping. Taken with my Minolta 600mm f/6.3 at 3200 ISO wide open 250th sec (didn't have to be that fast) 2X extenderfocused in 10x liveview (love that feature!)processed in DxO and reduced in DPP. DxO's downrezing is very bad, thats why I use DPP for that.
I applied a very strong saturation too bring out the colors, so you can see thebluecolor fringealong the top of the moon.
John.
That looks as though you used a little Faux HDR tone processing. That will bring in the various colors like you see here..
I didn't use DxO's HDR feature, but mabye it's saturation process is similar. There used to be CAwere the blue color fringe is, at lower saturaton levelsit was gone.
Thanks,
John.
This is my first time shooting the moon. Took me a while to get the exposure reasonable.
60D, 70-200/2.8L II, 1/250, f/4.0, 280 mm (200mm +1.4x TC) & ISO 100 handheld.
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Yes it is the closest perigee in 19 years "during the full moon". It is however Not the closest perigee in 19 year. There has been closer perigees more recently and will again in 2016 be even closer.
Nevertheless, The difference in apparent size from one perigee to another at perigee is so little it would be hard to tell with the naked eye. Most of the size effect distortions people see with the naked eye are caused by our atmosphere. If it weren't for recent events and the media hype people wouldn't have noticed any difference.
With all the recent hype over the super moon still lingering on, I thought this
article might be interesting for those who pay too much attention to the
mainstream media, and "astrologers".
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/obser...118265299.html
Even
if you take pictures for comparison of two different full Moons at perigee, there
would be no guarantee in it's accuracy. One might look larger or smaller than
the other, but is that truly because of its distance to the Earth? Or could it
be atmospheric distortions? Most likely the Atmosphere!
To get a realistic comparison when the size
difference is so little, everything would have to be the same for each. I.e. The camera and lens or telescope, the
location and time of day, the elevation above the horizon, and more importantly
the atmospheric conditions would have to be the same. Good luck with that.
Bah! The ENTIRE night it was a thick, gray blanket of clouds here. Didn
The clouds got more cooperative after midnight. It was cold when the sky cleared, but worth it.
1D IV, EF 70-200f/2.8 IS I + 1.4x, ISO 100 f/8 1/250, cropped from the center aggressively
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