First try at long exposures!

[timputtick]

I had an attempt at long exposures on the m27 motorway in England, I didn't think it was too bad for a first attempt. i lightly tampered with it on photoshop and probably made it worse, i also tried to photograph the moon tonight but i found a lot of glare and light rings and beams coming from it! this was really annoying as if i knew what to do i would of had an amazing shot. if anybody know's please let me know! thanks

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[momo3boys]

Looks neat! As far as moon shots go, try a much higher shutter speed. The moon is a lot brighter than you think and if you want detail you have to up the Shutter speed.

 

[889Media]

The blue and green noise messes up the picture. The light trails are very bright, so I am sure you could have gotten away with a tad faster shutter speed. As far as the moon picture, you should add it to your post so that people can see exactly how you shot it, something that would make it easier to comment on what went wrong! But as already mentioned in the post before me; people tend to over expose the moon - making it a white blob with no details and a lot of "noise" around it.

And...don't need font size xxl to be able to read your post! ^^

 

[shootermcgavin]

Was your ISO high it doesn't look too clear. When you shoto the moon pretend it's a sunny day, f16 1/200 shutter would be a starting point. I had the same problem with moon the first time.

 

[tyler_h]

When you shoto the moon pretend it's a sunny day, f16 1/200 shutter would be a starting point. I had the same problem with moon the first time.

I'd say f/8 or f/11 if you really must and faster SS. f/16 is well past diffraction limit (assuming op has a crop sensor). 18mp on a crop sensor is ~f/11.3.

 

[889Media]

As far as I know, I have to agree with "tyler_h", and use somewhere around F8 +/- -as that will give the sharpest images. I don't think you will need any higher aperture value just for shooting the moon - and rather trying to keeping the ISO low and go for a faster shutter speed. At least that works best for me.