I don't know if you found this out, but the full moon is as bright as a daylit scene. At ISO 100 you should set your exposure manually around 1/500 f 8. Start there and experiment. Of course, buildings and other dimly lit objects in the scene will be black. In you want both in the scene, put the camera on a tripod, manually expose for the building, then take a second shot for the moon, and then combine them in photo-editing program like Photoshop.
Also, you may find manually setting your focus at infinity will help, especially if your camera can't properly auto-focus on the moon.
Getting slightly better at setting the new camera to capture some detail on the over-half moon.
Doug:
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you found this out, but the full moon is as bright as a daylit scene. At ISO 100 you should set your exposure manually around 1/500 f 8. Start there and experiment. Of course, buildings and other dimly lit objects in the scene will be black. In you want both in the scene, put the camera on a tripod, manually expose for the building, then take a second shot for the moon, and then combine them in photo-editing program like Photoshop.
Also, you may find manually setting your focus at infinity will help, especially if your camera can't properly auto-focus on the moon.
Ray