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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Problem with taking moon shots with my cam?Question: Problem with taking moon shots with my cam!? i have a Olympus SP570 UZ !.
i take awesome and perfect shots with it!.!.!. but when it comes to taking pictures of the moon!.!.!. it looks like am taking a shot of a light bulb ! the clouds looks good, bit blurry, even with a tripod!.!.!. and the moon looks like a white circle, with too much glow, i want that effect where i can actually see the surface!.!.!.!. please help :) and thanks !Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: You are not going to get good results with a point and shoot!. You need a slr or dslr with at least a 300mm lens!. iso 100 shutter speed 1/250 aperture f/8 them bracket your shotsWww@QuestionHome@Com Several things you can do!. Night photography can be pretty tough!. Always use a tripod in the dark is #1!. If you're using AUTO with FLASh, bad idea!. Try to switch to manual, and turn the flash off!. Reset the Aperture and Shutter Speed, and take a pic, view how it came out, and keep raising or lowering either (or both) the A and S!. Eventually you'll get the right combination of colors and context you desire, even without photo-shopping!. If you don't know how to do A or S, there are plenty of online guides to digital and film photography, try google!. Don't forget to FOCUS the lens and have the moon in the view point!. By not focusing and having the moon off to the side, the object of your desire(moon) will be blurry!. If you just can't seem to get Aperture and Shutter speed, you can setting your camera to outdoor setting, scenery, night scenery, or sports, but it wont have the same results as would adjusting manually!. Hope this helps!. Oh, it also matters if you're taking it in B&W or Color!.Www@QuestionHome@Com You are exposing for the surrounding area when you should be taking a reading from the moon itself, put thw moon in the middle of the viewfinder when taking an exposure reading!. However when you expose for the moon, the rest of your frame will be very dark, pick a time to shoot roughly an hour after sunset, or an hour before sunrise!. this is the photographers witching hour, when the residual light which is still bouncing around in the atmosphere is just enough without being too much or too little!. good luck! Www@QuestionHome@Com Tell your camera to underexpose a bit to get the moon's details!. But if you do that you wont get too much of the clouds!. Your camera can't resolve the light shift between the relatively bright moon and dimly lit clouds, so you have to pick one and go with it!. If your camera has manual controls, use f/16, 1/ISO for shutter speed!.Www@QuestionHome@Com the problem your getting is a lens glare i would say, do remember the light of the moon comes from the sun and DOES produce a glare, my canon powershot a590 IS does the same thing so yea!.!.!. o! and make sure the lens is SPOTLESS, if its been touched then a glare will def!. appearWww@QuestionHome@Com try using a telescope! Www@QuestionHome@Com |