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Hey /p/, how do I taked picture of moon?
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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And a bonus: A sunset picture that has a lightpost that happens to look like a cross dominating the composition! yay!

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>> Anonymous
I ran into this same problem. Please help with nighttime photography.. can't seem to get a picture at all. I'm using a canon s3 IS and just assumed it could not handle the brightness/contrast of a full moon. Any help would be greatly appreciated.. I tried messing with all the settings i could but it came out as basically a round ball of one light level.
>> Anonymous
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oh.. here is one of the pictures just for reference. not exactly very good.. my current thoughts are that I'll need a tripod and have to do longer exposures with low ISO and other settings. any input..?

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>> Anonymous
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some others

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>> Anonymous
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damn.. see how bad the noise is with these

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>> iProd !8x7lXo9zIQ
Take a pic of it at dusk :3
>> Details People Anonymous
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I use the spot metering function on my camera. I aim it at the moon and snap. I have the 30D. I just read up on your s3 and I noticed that it too has spot metering. I suggest using this, and I don't think you NEED a tripod. The moon is pretty bright to be photographed without needing one. If you look at the EXIF data in my picture, you'll notice that the shutter speed was 1/600s which is hand-held worthy. The iso is in your camera's range too. But remember, in order to get a detailed shot of the moon, the shutter speed will be too high to get anything else around the moon, clouds, stars, etc. If you want to get the detail in the moon and surrounding objects also, you need to do an HDR photo.

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>> Anonymous
Your f/stop is too high for this picture. You can tell by the star like light bands coming off of the moon. This also, lessens the light going to the senor which means longer exposure = more noise. Try opening up your f/stop to the lowest number.
>> Anonymous
Another thing you can do to get rid of the noise is to use an image stacker program. You take a bunch of pictures of the moon. They have to all be the same exposures. The program takes all the pictures, compares them, detects the noise and removes it and leaves nice sharp pictures of the moon.
>> Anonyfag of Borneo !bHymOqU5YY
*curses the fact that he lives near the Equator, which means an increased distance to the moon*
>> Anonymous
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OP here: The words of the first post were not an actual question. Also, I took a shot just like that one, but it was BOOOORING (If I wanted shots of the moon like that, I'd go to nasa.gov and get hi-res ones from the HST). I was trying different things. The light bands were intentional, I wanted an unusual look. But anyway, thanks for trying to help. Another good tidbit I've heard about the moon is this:

"Expose like you're taking a picture of something lit by daylight (because you are)."
>> Anonymous
I was addressing the other guy three posts down. But thanks for posting a question that wasn't 'an actual question.'
>> Anonymous
thanks for the info. I'm still figuring all this stuff out, I just got my camera a few weeks ago. I've managed to get through most daylight situations by just tweaking with the settings, not really understanding exactly what I'm doing, but night time has been rough, I'll try taking some shots tonight and see how they turn out.
>> Anonymous
I use this exposure calculator most of the time, its easy to use and has given me pretty good results. Its at least a good place to start, then you can adjust the exposure from there. http://www.shaystephens.com/moon_calc.php
>> Anonymous
Something else: you'll often want the land in there with the moon. Accept some blown highlights in a big glowing ball in the sky and expose at an intermediate value, but biased heavily toward the moon. Shadows can be recovered but a huge number of blown highlights will just make it look like a big glowing ball in the sky and nothing more.