Quote Originally Posted by Sean Setters
Now that I think about it, I don't believe you'll be able to see much detail in the tree even if you were to throw some flash in there. Why? Depth of field. You can see the tree is quite fuzzy as is, so throwing some light on it won't really bring out much detail (it'll still be quite out-of-focus at 500mm when focused on the moon). The flash might provide a bit more interest, though, as the outline of the tree would stand out a bit more.

That was the second part of my problem that I have to figure out, I was about 50 yards from the tree when I took this. Ireally wanta large moon in the photo, which of course the 500mm will provide. But I may have to do this with a shorter lens to get the DOF. I knew I could solve this problem, either moving further from the tree, changing lens or both.


I should have posted the full picture and not the crop version. The tree outline looks kind of like a giant hand grabing the moon.