Moonrise

A full moon tonight should make a nice photo; I just haven't figured out how to get a clear shot of it. Any advice?

[Ruth Moucharafieh]

No advice here, this shot is safely in my failure box awaiting more effort!!!

[Ness Santvoort]

Hi Kathryn, I have used a polarising filter when the moon is full and bright, it does seem to help. I was also told that the best moon to photograph is 1/4 moon rather than a full moon, however the minute someone tells me it can't be done I have to try it for myself (failure hurts though :) )

[Ness Santvoort]

PS I like the composition of this shot,

[Janet Shaffer]

I love the branches in the foreground. (And I can't offer any advice because the moon shot I tried yesterday STUNK!)

[Wendy Bowden]

Lovely compositon, there are so many combinations of settings to capture the moon. If you want to get the details of the moon with the trees, try going out a little earlier & set your shutter at 1/50 with an aperture of 5.6 to start with to see what you get. Then adjust you iso to help with the lighting the image. I just play around with the settings to see which ones work well. Slow shutter speeds like 1/4 & slower have the moon coming out as a glow & capture the surroundings. A faster shutter speed 1/160 & over will give you detail in the moon with black surroundings. Depends what sort of image your want to create. There are lots of threads on here to help with it, just enter in moon in your search box. Some of the discussions might explain it better than me