Day 20 of 30: Moon

[nanila]

It is cold and icy rain is falling outside tonight. But the Moon, she is looking rather gorgeous.

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Ohhh, lovely moon.

[cosmolinguist]

I was outside a lot last night (helps when night starts before 5pm) and I made repeated comments about how good the moon looked. :)

[omnipotent]

Wow, this is an amazing shot. Well done!

[slemslempike]

What a lovely picutre. Whenever I try to capture the moon it just looks like a silly blob.

[cmcmck]

She does that! :o)

[silveradept]

Wouldn't have known at all that anything was terrible as weather.

[pbristow]

Oooh!!!! Moooooooooooooooonnnnn!!!!!! =:oo

How exactly was that taken?

[nanila]

Yes! I have been enjoying it. :)

[nanila]

These cold clear nights are good for moons that want to show off. :)

[nanila]

Thank you. It's been a while since I used manual mode on my dSLR.

[nanila]

Thank you. Getting decent moon shots does require manual manipulation of camera settings, as if you let it auto-level the brightness it will always end up blown out.

[nanila]

Quite often on these cold crisp evenings. :)

[nanila]

It was easy to forget the weather whilst Moon-gazing!

[nanila]

Manual settings on the dSLR with a telephoto lens, using a fast shutter speed with a relatively narrow aperture, to avoid blowing the highlights. :)

[pbristow]

Fast???? I know the moon is much brighter than anything else in the night sky, but... You did that on a *FAST* shutter speed? =:oO

*MIND IS BLOWN*

[HYPERVETILATES]

[POSSIBLY OVER-DRAMATISES JUST A WEE TAD]

OK, maybe your idea of "fast" is different than mine? Or maybe I'm just a clueless photography noob (of 38 years standing)...?

Gimme *numbers* (with accompanying relevant units), dammit!!! =:oO

[pbristow]

P.S. I may also have imbibed some intoxicating molecules within a relatively small portion of the recent terrestrial day-cycle, so please excuse me BEATING YOU OVER THA HED WIV A CONDOMINIUM AND DEMANDING ANSWERS, DAMMITT!!! HIC!!!!!!! +;O]

[nanila]

Heh.

ISO 500, f/5.0, shutter speed 1/4000, focal length 200mm.

[pbristow]

Thankyou! =:o}

Of course, fast "film" (i.e. "ISO setting") to go with the fast shutter speed. I hail from the era when anything over ISO 100 film would cost you extra... =:o\ (I usually bought 200, as an almost-adequate compromise for indoor and outdoor shooting.) And presumably the telephoto lens gathers a decent amount more light per radian than the cheaper basic lenses I had.