I'm from Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa. Tulbagh is a small farming community.
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@ingrid_marianna I got this shot from Aurora, Colorado - http://365project.org/adambralston/365/2015-02-04 I think the key is under exposing the shot. You'll never underexpose the moon because it's too bright when full. But you have to use a fast enough shutter speed to be faster than 1/focal length.
@adambralston Thank you for the advice! I am currently stuck with a pretty basic point and shoot, but I hope to inherit my husband's Pentax in the near future and will remember the next time the moon is so vivid :)
@adambralston some cool advice you gave. I must be honest in saying that I normally shoot in manual using aperture of around f/7 and shutter of 1/320 or sometimes 1/250, ISO 100. Usually handheld as I'm lazy to get the tripod out.
@salza You mean those are the settings you use for the moon? What is your max focal distance 250mm or 300mm or bigger?? You have a great handheld shot here. At that magnification I find it VERY hard to handhold without blurring the moon. I get more egg shaped oval floating objects when I handhold vs tripod the moon. That shot I posted before is handheld, but at lower zoom.
Did you crop into your moon shot here? Looks like about 450mm.
@adambralston this was handheld. My lens is 16-300mm. Those settings are what I normally use for taking pics of the moon. I see this one has ISO 400 and a focal length of 240mm, f/7.1 and shutter 1/320. Definitely quite a severe crop!
awesome! i couldn't be bothered these days for moon shots although i see it all the time through my kitchen windows. it's just too cold to bother shooting it. brrrrrr!
February 9th, 2015
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Did you crop into your moon shot here? Looks like about 450mm.