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#1562 2008-02-17 22:37 GMT |
i wana take some photoes of moons and stuff anight but im not to shure how to do it could some one give me some advice plz
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#1563 2008-02-18 11:34 GMT |
Hi Luke,If you give some details of the camera and lenses that you using then it will be easier to provide you with the advice that you need.
Regards, Les aka davles.
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#1564 2008-02-18 20:59 GMT |
okay i will check when i get home
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#1565 2008-02-19 14:38 GMT |
Hi Luke_16,
Just a small general suggestion for taking moon or night photos...
No flash as you will illuminate your foreground and use a slow shutter speed to capture the light and shadows and to do that you need a tripod or some place to set your camera. Otherwise, if you hand hold the camera you will definitely get the "hand shake". I tried to hand hold a night shot of the moon and got an exposure with three moons from the hand movement.
You'll have to experiment with shutter speed depending on your camera as you don't say what you have.
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#1566 2008-02-20 00:31 GMT |
The trick is not to overexpose. 1/800 works well with my E-410 with a 42-150mm lens.
Rina K,:love |
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#1567 2008-02-21 00:23 GMT |
You need a tripod and a decent telephoto lens.I took some shots of the eclipse last night and I used my Olympus E-410 with my 42-150mm Zuiko digital ED lens and my tripod. For the full eclipse phase I used "M" mode and an exposure of 2.5 sec. 1/250 of a second worked well for most of the other phases. Generally, for a full moon, the settings Rina suggested work well with my camera. Hope this helps Luke.
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#1568 2008-02-21 04:26 GMT |
i tried to take a shot of the moon with a canon 70-300 is
with image stabilization on but i got shaky photos
so getting a tripod is a must
then after i took a descent photo of the moon the moon was soooooo small
like a dot in a black sea
you need some kind of a telescope that sells for about 200 dollars on Amazon
or you need a 1000 mm lens
but do not be fooled by the cheap lenses on Amazon
instead buy the telescope it is the best choice for the money
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#1569 2008-02-21 19:24 GMT |
cable release is a must, you can not shoot anything with over 500mm and SSless then 1/250 without cable release.
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#1575 2008-02-25 14:22 GMT |
A wireless remote also works well to avoid the the slight movement caused by pressing the shutter button or simply set a 2 sec delay on the self timer, then gently press the shutter button and let go of the camera (providing it's on a tripod  ).
I'm a man,
but I can change,
if I have too...
I guess.... |
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#1576 2008-02-27 21:22 GMT |
Point your camera at it and push the button. That's a start. Post it and we can go from there.
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#1593 2008-03-17 00:44 GMT |
I haven't used a cable release since the 2 second delayed shutter release was found. I use that for any shot on a tripod under 1/15th.
If you can get your hands on a 300mm prime that will produce excellent results. A high megapixel camera is good too, (DSLR) which will make the resolution of the moon greater too.
A good way to do this would be to treat this as an HDRI shoot. Since the moon is so massively bright in relation the the landscape it's worth it to shoot 12 images from exposing the moon perfectly to exposing for the ground in front of you. In this way you can use photoshop to create a composite of all the light information found in all the images. High Dynamic Range Image. If you have never done this, have no fear, it's pretty easy. I use this technique all the time to photograph large format slides, since film has a higher ranger then digital I find it difficult to get both highlights and shadows, so I shoot 4 or 5 images and combine them in photoshop.
Even if you never get around to the whole HDRI thing you will then have a prime choice of exposures... call it a mega bracketing set. 
One final thing, a long exposure... over a second or two will start to blur the stars and moon.
cheers
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