July 15, 2024

Descriptions Of Moon Photography And Tips For Basic Settings

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INTRODUCTION

There is a big moon today. You can try some good shot.

You will need a fairly long camera lens, from experience and on my Canon EOS 400D which has a 1.6x crop factor a 300mm is hardly enough. Even with it a good crop is still required.

Set your camera to its lowest ISO speed. Since we are going to be using a tripod anyway then no need to boost the ISO speed, just set it to the lowest value possible because this will give you the cleanest picture your digital camera can give you. Do not forget to use tripod and trigger to avoid blurry image.

Moon pictures are very delicate and you’ll really hate a blurry one. So, to minimize camera movements to the max you will want to enable the mirror lockup and, unless you have a cable release for your camera, enable the timer on your camera.

Shoot RAW
RAW is much more flexible in editing afterwards and it is not unusual that you will want to develop different versions of your moon shots with different white balance settings.

I usually shoot the moon with a tungsten white balance that will give it a nice bronze colour. Some people do prefer to set the White Balance to Daylight.

My preferred aperture for moon shots is f/8 but I think this will also depend on your lens, so I’d say f/8 ~ f/16 range is OK.

Set your lens on Manual Focus and focus for infinity.

N.B.: Some lenses can focus past infinity, so make sure your lens focus in on infinity.

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CONCLUSION

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