Shooting the moon

[Kerro]

Now I know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks AP.

[ooaoo]

Nice shot arnica, now I am itchy to give it a try as well, thanks.

[yongkun]

I think one of the most important thing is to use Spot metering. Attached a shot of mine with a Pentax kit lens, handheld it at a pretty low ground level. Of course you will have to extract more details during the post processing.

[Bear]

Just happened on this thread and am really pleased I did.

All of my shots of the moon had turned out blobby white nothings and was incredibly frustrating getting poor results.

Considering that the 19th of march has the moon at it's closest point then looks liek I might get some usuable pictures..

Thanks again guys for providing so much detail about camera settings. Great appreciated.

[Kym]

From 2011-01-14 all manual on tripod 500mm + 1.4 TC


Moon 2011-01-14 by cypheroz, on Flickr

[Patagonia]

Some nice shots here...I like shooting the moon so I have experimented a bit, don´t think its nessesary to change metering or anything else, the clue is that you have lots of light from the moon!!! just shoot manual with:
- Lowest ISO available (don´t need to pump ISO)
- F/7 to F/11 or something like it, were your lens is better
- Try different speeds till you get the desired result, could be something 1/60 to 1/1000, it will depend on which fase the moon is
...enyoy!!!