As good as i could do with the moon, nothing special.

Digger... · May 12, 2025

Wondering if turning off stabilisation would have done anything to help this? As sharp as i could get.

Used spot metering, with the settings below.

24megapixseal · May 13, 2025

Those are actually darn nice full moon pics...

...and as good as you'll ever get!...

The problem with full moon pics, and the reason I stopped taking them, were that they're pretty uneventful (read that as "boring")... full frontal light from the sun just washed it out, zero shadows to give the surface any texture or detail.

The moon during ANY phase but FULL, is an excellent target for our cameras and long lenses...and seriously, YOUR PHOTO IS AN EXCELLENT CAPTURE

....don't be disappointed with you gear or skills, just blame it on the sun's DIRECT light

...lolol....

24megapixseal · May 13, 2025

Looking around the outer edges of you moon shot, at 6 o'clock and about 1 o'clock, you can tell you've taken a SHARP image, as you can see some crater detail at 6 o'clock, and rough mountainous edges at 1 o'clock...

And even the Tycho crater, it's there in great detail ...just completely washed out, due to the lighting (not your gear/skills)

Dude, you can't get any better than these photos, for a full moon...

Just wait 2-3 days then you'll have another 25 days of a worthwhile target, with lots of crater details....then PLEASE post those EXCITINGLY DETAILED photos!!!.....

Another suggestion, now that you have a baseline of camera setting, shoot in manual and always set ISO yo 100, drop your fstop to around 8, then just adjust the shutter up and down...I prefer a 'VERY slightly' underexposured file to manipulate in Lightroom...then nothing is blown out...

And I always use the delayed shutter option on the D5600....and always on a tripod, obviously!...and I use the 5 second timer, for 3 shot rounds (also set in the timer menu)...and once focus is set, switch to manual focus.

24megapixseal · May 13, 2025

Digger, go to my post on the lunar eclipse, and look at the camera setting under each photo, especially pre-eclipse....these will give you some ideas for your future moon outings....and for future lunar eclipse, as it's very eye-opening as far as how extreme those setting have to get, in order to capture it.

Thread 'Another Blood Moon Eclipse photo set' Another Blood Moon Eclipse photo set

Digger... · May 13, 2025

24megapixseal said:
Those are actually darn nice full moon pics......and as good as you'll ever get!...

The problem with full moon pics, and the reason I stopped taking them, were that they're pretty uneventful (read that as "boring")... full frontal light from the sun just washed it out, zero shadows to give the surface any texture or detail.

The moon during ANY phase but FULL, is an excellent target for our cameras and long lenses...and seriously, YOUR PHOTO IS AN EXCELLENT CAPTURE ....don't be disappointed with you gear or skills, just blame it on the sun's DIRECT light ...lolol....

Cheers for the reply posts Mr im glad i done something mostly right.

Was using a tripod and a wireless shutter gizmo, but yeah i was lazy in turning on the shutter delay option.

Shall correct this for next time...

24megapixseal said:
Digger, go to my post on the lunar eclipse, and look at the camera setting under each photo, especially pre-eclipse....these will give you some ideas for your future moon outings....and for future lunar eclipse, as it's very eye-opening as far as how extreme those setting have to get, in order to capture it.

Thread 'Another Blood Moon Eclipse photo set' Another Blood Moon Eclipse photo set

The next lunar eclipse here is in September, but the only problem is its a 1am to 6am thing

. I like my sleep, but if it's not going to be cloudy will probably make an effort to stay awake

Cloud Coverage

In the past, this day was cloudy 76% of the time (since 2000).

jeffashman · May 13, 2025

You did a very good job! We had a gorgeous large golden full moon last night, but all I had on me was my iPhone and it didn't come close to capturing what I was looking at.