What's the correct exposure of this moon shot?

[Ballistics]

I was on a tripod. Hm, maybe I should turn off VR and use a cable

I'm failing to remember what my magnification is in PP, but that doesn't matter. If you are using your tripod, manually focus, set your exposure to around 1/200, F stop to around f/8, zoom in to 300mm, Put your ISO to around 800 and see what happens. Increase exposure if you have too. If you don't have a remote or cable, put your camera on a timer.

 

[reissigree]

Alright. I think I nailed it.

DSC_0002 (2) by reissigree, on Flickr

 

[Ballistics]

Much better. Brighten it up in photoshop and go another 100%.

 

[Ballistics]

My shot may be slightly overexposed, so brighten it in between your last shot and my shot, sharpen it a little, increase the magnification to 200% and I think you'll be happy.

 

[Annerotica]

Wow cool reissigree, where do you live?

 

[reissigree]

Wow cool reissigree, where do you live?

Texas.. why?

 

[Annerotica]

Wow cool reissigree, where do you live?

Texas.. why?

I don't see the moon that well here anywhere....I live in NC. But I guess It could be that I live near the city of Charlotte and the skies never really get dark.

 

[o hey tyler]

For the love of **** turn off VR. Using VR on a tripod is useless. It will only harm your IQ. Shoot at f/8 just for shats. It's on the lower end of the "sweet spot" range of a lens. Use mirror lockup, and a remote release. Either that, or a 2 second timer.

Your most current shot looks the best. Nice work. :thumbup:

PS. I also want to mention that the rotation offsets at such a rate that an exposure under 8-9 seconds is prime. That may factor into the equation. Although, I haven't done enough of this kind of photography to really give a definitive answer. Just want to make that clear. And judging by your EXIF, that isn't an issue.

 

[Ballistics]

Wow cool reissigree, where do you live?

Texas.. why?

I don't see the moon that well here anywhere....I live in NC. But I guess It could be that I live near the city of Charlotte and the skies never really get dark.

You can easily get a full moon picture like that virtually anywhere in the world.

 

[reissigree]

Much better. Brighten it up in photoshop and go another 100%.

I'll do that Ballistics, thanks!

 

[reissigree]

For the love of **** turn off VR. Using VR on a tripod is useless. It will only harm your IQ. Shoot at f/8 just for shats. It's on the lower end of the "sweet spot" range of a lens. Use mirror lockup, and a remote release. Either that, or a 2 second timer.

Your most current shot looks the best. Nice work. :thumbup:

PS. I also want to mention that the rotation offsets at such a rate that an exposure under 8-9 seconds is prime. That may factor into the equation. Although, I haven't done enough of this kind of photography to really give a definitive answer. Just want to make that clear. And judging by your EXIF, that isn't an issue.

VR is off! I realized that after I saw the image moving while on the tripod lol. What does mirror lockup achieve? Thanks!

 

[reissigree]

I used the "sharpen more" filter.

DSC_0002 (2) by reissigree, on Flickr

 

[o hey tyler]

For the love of **** turn off VR. Using VR on a tripod is useless. It will only harm your IQ. Shoot at f/8 just for shats. It's on the lower end of the "sweet spot" range of a lens. Use mirror lockup, and a remote release. Either that, or a 2 second timer.

Your most current shot looks the best. Nice work. :thumbup:

PS. I also want to mention that the rotation offsets at such a rate that an exposure under 8-9 seconds is prime. That may factor into the equation. Although, I haven't done enough of this kind of photography to really give a definitive answer. Just want to make that clear. And judging by your EXIF, that isn't an issue.

VR is off! I realized that after I saw the image moving while on the tripod lol. What does mirror lockup achieve? Thanks!

When your mirror slaps down during an exposure, it shakes your camera a tiny bit. You can set it so that one press of the shutter release slaps the mirror (so the viewfinder is useless) and the next shutter press is the photo. So the sensor captures an image well after the mirror slaps making for a sharper image.

 

[Ballistics]

I used the "sharpen more" filter.

DSC_0002 (2) by reissigree, on Flickr

You're almost there... Seems like the focus is off a smidgen, or it's just a tad blurry. Don't worry you're getting there quick. A little more fiddling and you will have a great shot.

 

[KmH]

The Moon is 300,000 km away (average). The distance the camera is from the point of focus has A LOT to do with how deep DoF is.

Any f-number will give you infinite DoF, including f/1, when the Moon is the focus point.

At f/10 diffraction focus softening can occur. Use the f-number that gives the sharpest focus with that lens. Most lenses give their sharpest focus from about f/4 to about f/8.

Plus by making a 100% crop, all the pixels are bigger negating some portion of the anti-aliasing.

Four main factors control DoF:
1. lens focal length
2. Image sensor to focus point distance
3. Focus point to background distance
4. Lens aperture