My cheep version of a tripod cannot support my camera on full zoom, so hand-held is currently better. Till I finally get a decent tripod, here is a hand-held moon - beautiful and shiny today.
As always, thank you very much for your visits, comments and critique!
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It's my first decent! That's why I even put my toy shot today into the runners-up album and made this one the pic of the day. The key is - to do the spot metering so that the camera exposes only for the lightest and brightest, then the rest will appear darker (darker spots) or black (the sky). I used the 800ISO since it was a hand-held, but if I could fix the camera stationary, then I would have picked a lower ISO to have less grain. I think the neighbours think now that we are from CIA - so many camera clicks at night with 300mm zoom. :) Good luck with experimenting, it was fun!
Terrific capture Vera! I too have trouble with my tripod! Love your clarity - and I just love the moon :)
Hope you don't mind, but I'll give @maggiemae@amandal some hints - have speed at 125 and use f11, then vary ISO from 200 upwards until you are happy with lightness. I had googled this ages ago because I was frustrated I couldn't photograph the moon that I love :) Happy moon shooting! And a fav too Vera :)
@sdutoit Thank you, Sylvia! I use Tamron 16-300 lens, and this is a strong crop of the original image. I was practicing the "sharp shooter" techniques - there was an article on DPS about it that describes how to best minimise the movement when shooting handheld. It's the first time I actually managed to get the moon not as a shiny "blob". For me, the spot metering did the major trick.
@gilbertwood Wow, thank you, Denise! I should have researched it before I took the shots, but it was a spontaneous kind of thing, so I just grabbed my camera and gave it a try. I think with a tripod (that I WILL!!! get some day!!!) I can try again. That's the beauty of this - you never run out of subjects to practice! :) Thank you for your input!
Huge thanks to all of you for your lovely comments on the moon! I am still happy with the way it turned out, but I really want a tripod now! And I was also very excited that you could really see the craters - and that it made my older one so excited about both the moon and taking pictures of it.
I was also trying to find that article that talks about breathing during shooting - that you are really supposed to breathe like a sniper, fist exhaling and then pushing the "trigger" when you body is most relaxed (It was on DPS, I think), but I couldn't find it. But - since I read it, it really has helped me to reduce camera shake.
It's my first decent! That's why I even put my toy shot today into the runners-up album and made this one the pic of the day. The key is - to do the spot metering so that the camera exposes only for the lightest and brightest, then the rest will appear darker (darker spots) or black (the sky). I used the 800ISO since it was a hand-held, but if I could fix the camera stationary, then I would have picked a lower ISO to have less grain. I think the neighbours think now that we are from CIA - so many camera clicks at night with 300mm zoom. :) Good luck with experimenting, it was fun!
Hope you don't mind, but I'll give @maggiemae @amandal some hints - have speed at 125 and use f11, then vary ISO from 200 upwards until you are happy with lightness. I had googled this ages ago because I was frustrated I couldn't photograph the moon that I love :) Happy moon shooting! And a fav too Vera :)
I was also trying to find that article that talks about breathing during shooting - that you are really supposed to breathe like a sniper, fist exhaling and then pushing the "trigger" when you body is most relaxed (It was on DPS, I think), but I couldn't find it. But - since I read it, it really has helped me to reduce camera shake.
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