What's the correct exposure of this moon shot?

[o hey tyler]

smidgen

:thumbup:

 

[Ballistics]

No other word does the amount justice.

 

[KmH]

I used the "sharpen more" filter.

DSC_0002 (2) by reissigree, on Flickr

Sorry, that's underexposed.

We can't see the white rays from the crator Tyhco.

The Moon is tough because the old Mare (lava flows) are quite dark, and the young stuff, like Tyhco, is very bright.

 

[reissigree]

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

Wow.. Thanks! That's a ton of info, but I'm going to go re-shoot and see what I come up with

I'll have my VR off, shoot at f/4 - f/8 to see what's sharpest. And finally use mirrror lockup. Thanks guys! Be back in a few minutes with the next photo.

 

[reissigree]

Went outside and there was total cloud cover

 

[Annerotica]

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

I will try that tomorrow night will all the advice here, thanks! Maybe someday I won't be a newb lol.

 

[Ballistics]

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

I will try that tomorrow night will all the advice here, thanks! Maybe someday I won't be a newb lol.

The issue with light pollution is the difficulty with photographing the stars.

You can get shots of the moon from a city... but not shots like these:

 

[o hey tyler]

[video=vimeo;1250929]http://vimeo.com/1250929[/video]

 

[reissigree]

[video=vimeo;1250929]http://vimeo.com/1250929[/video]

I love your signature so much......

so much that I stole it for a caption on Flickr:
I, I, I like my shutter fast and my F-stop down low. by reissigree, on Flickr

Hope you don't mind!