Your moon is nice, albeit a little bit out of focus. I've found when shooting the moon that I have to make a decision if I'm going to expose for the bright parts or for the mare. As it stands it doesn't really draw me into it.
(you asked!)
I've also read (and found) that a not as full moon offers much more contrast at the shadowed edge which adds some drama to an otherwise somewhat flat subject.
Nice work and I agree with dragon in that full moons are hard to look interesting (Copernicus the only visible crater), 1/4 moons I find create much better definition and contrast. No Eclipse in my part of the world I don't think ;)
Its been said Bill.Part moons can be much more contrasty and if the right part is shot the craters show and add a lot of interest.Its always wonderful to see the Moon though :-))
DS - you're right, this wasn't one of my better shots. I had trouble focusing (since when at infinity does 225,000 miles have different levels of focus anyway?) so I tried manual focus - my greatest weekness. I rely heavily on auto focus except for macros because the subject is just too small in the viewfinder.
Since the moon was extraordinarily bright I used settings that were a little slow and only shot a couple of different speeds because I was freezing!
I noticed from the majority of European shots (with color) had very little relief detail compared to normal moons.
PhotoPro,,,,, Looks good. Try a manual setting. Infinity should end at approx. 1/2 mile with that 450 lens. Any thing past that should be in focus.
Photoshop sharpen with mask sharpen a little contast and you'll love the difference. Good luck,,,,,, Slats1 Steve USA
of course for a moon picture you need to set all manually. the auto will always settle for wide open lens, which costs depth of field, and for the shutter just keep it to faster than your hand shakes, ( :-)))) )
but you did alright here. by blowing it up so much you lost again some of the detail.
Please find here my shot:
http://www.fotothing.com/Dudu911/photo/5d92fd75b13b4ee439840dd469de2845/ made with canon eos 20d & 70-200 tele +2x convereter. (=400*1.6)
You did it well just need more apperture between 9 to 14 because optics give their best around this values. Also important moon needs short expo time (
Steve - thanks for your input! I shot using aperature priority ( next time I will use manual.) and the focus was all the was out using the auto focus burt looked a little blurred so I switched to manual focus and zoomed out a little.
Even blown up to 400% it looks pretty sharp the way it ended up.
Dudu911 - thanks for your input. I usually shoot aperature priority and the camera "usually" chooses f8 - f 11 for me. I did shoot at 1/10000 though... any quicker and the shots were too dark. (I shot about 15 total at different settings)
Next time I will take more time and use manual.... when I'm not quite so COLD! :)
Bill, the moon, especially when full, is a pain-in-the-neck subject as you already know but this shot is not bad at all. Try some shots when it is 3/4 full and you will have nice crater shading, really spectacular sometimes!
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