Super Moon tips anyone? :D

[WilsonFlyer]

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/

 

[PrincessInOz]

I'm shooting with a Canon kit 55 - 250 mm on a crop camera. It's times like this that I wish I had a better lens.


Moon rise over a Melbourne park on March 19, 2011 - 7.20 pm

Moonlight - a little after 8 pm

Heavily cropped.

Taken from my backyard - about 8.45 pm.

 

[m-tinkerbelle]

Here's a preview of the super moon - took it at 1am Saturday morning, March 19, 2011 (about an hour ago) with my DSLR-A550 and a Tamron 200-500mm lens at 500mm, paired with a Tamron 2x teleconverter for 1000mm on a 1.5x crop body camera (that's 1500mm equivalent!!):

wow! did you find any alien life? nice lens!!!

thank you all for sharing your pics! I regreted not having my camera with me yesterday afternoon, that won't happen tonight XD I changed my mind and if I have time I'll be giving an opportunity to my camera and ... my lack of skills XD

the moon did look brighter yesterday and a bit bigger, but you were all right, not significantly different,... not as large as the media made it sound

I doubt I'll be able to take the shot I want (both for my agenda for tonight saturday night and for my camera/55-300 lens)

If i finally go to give it a try and I get something a tiny bit decent I'll post it here

I guess the fact that I never had a telescope is making me more eager to get a nice moon+tower+river shot than I would normally be hahaha

thank you all! have an awesome weekend

 

[m-tinkerbelle]

hi!!!
I just came back from our saturday night photography nightmare...a nightmare for DH, who was so patient with me taking like 100 pics with the same composition

I didn't get a tripod so I was very unsure of what the resulting pics looked like, because my hands are never steady enough

Still, I got many pics that I liked. Here's my favorite. I know it's far from perfect and it's a very well known picture that you could find in almost any travel book but knowing that it was me who took it makes me very excited!

so, here it is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60719759@N02/5541207534/


these are the settings I chose for this pic:

Camera: Nikon D3100

Focal length: 58.0mm (handheld, as I said )
Exposure program: manual
ISO setting: ISO 400
Exposure time 1/10 sec.
FNumber f/4.5
No Flash
Auto white balance

Any comments/suggestions/advices, etc will be very well welcomed ;D

I took other pics with a longer shutter speed, and they of course came out looking lighter than this one. I chose to share this one with you all because it's closer to what my eyes were seing at the moment. There will be plenty of time to play with photoshop or to be more "artistic" in other pics. Besides, it's bedtime here so I gotta go

As for pics of the moon itself... none of them came out well XD as you all pointed out, it's too bright and I can't get the right settings! All I get is a shiny empty dinner plate. I would have tried more things but my battery just died (what's worse, I have the moon right outside my bedroom windows so it would have been a perfect chance to take as many pics as I wanted before going to bed :cry


good night!!! good luck to those who'll be trying to take a pic of the "event" ;D

 

[ukcatfan]

I was out last night playing with the kids and taking pics of my daughter flying a kite when the moon rose, so I went ahead and took a few shots. Here is one of the ones I like.

 

[ukcatfan]

Did a little post processing and I actually like this one more

 

[Shutterbug]

The moon was really orange when it came up tonight and not really all that bright, made it hard to take a good photo. I am right now playin in photoshop to try and clean it up.

 

[mabas9395]

Nothing but clouds here. Guess I'll have to wait another 18 years.

 

[Kphoto]

Darn...beautiful moon, beautiful palm trees, beautiful weather, terrible pictures.

So I downloaded a free stock moon picture from freenaturepictures.com and accidently pressed Overlay Blend when adding it to my palm tree picture. I like it, I'm keeping it - here's my version of Blue Moon.

Karen

 

[m-tinkerbelle]

when i went to bed i ended up with insomnia so when the battery was fully charged I took this pic from my window, which came out acceptable thanks to your tips!

I'm VERY pleased with it, a lot more than I ever expected my moon shot to be! so thanks a lot I had had the exposure compensation on and at 2.0+ or 3.0+ without noticing ( and I guess that's why it seemed so hard to take a picture of it lol

here's the pic:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5095/5542728388_26a6d475bd_b.jpg
this one is at ISO 100,
exposure time 1/640 sec
aperture value: f/ 5.6
focal length: 300 mm

I did some cropping and adjusted the curves adjustment just a tiny bit to make the moon brighter

If it weren't for you guys, I would have never been able to take this shot! thanks a LOT!

I went to bed very satisfied ;D