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Mooning People

by Kay~Kacey on 11/11/2009

In my ongoing quest for the perfect moon photo, I once again attempted some full moon shots. This one was the full moon shining over my office.

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Yes, not so great. Nice in concept, but poor in execution.

The next night SuperGuy calls me when he’s driving home from work and says to go outside and look at the moon. It’s shining through the clouds. I go outside and I’m awed by it. I run inside, hunt for my camera. Isn’t it in the kitchen? No. Oh, it’s in my office. No. Oh, that’s right, it’s upstairs. I race upstairs, grab the camera and run outside.

I get outside and the clouds had just about covered up the moon  :wallbash:

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Yes, and in my hurry I managed to catch some nice grain from under exposure. Special.

So…the next night. I’m out of town at a friend’s house. She lives on a lake. Beautiful full bright orange moon rising over the lake. But did I have my camera with me??? No, of course not!! :mad2:

I’m sure I’ll have other photo flops to show you in my attempts at getting some cool moon photos.

Full Moon Photo

by Kay~Kacey on 10/12/2009

As promised, my attempt at photographing the full moon. Not entirely pleased with my attempts, but I’ll try again next full moon.

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I’d love to have a longer lens to try with this. For the technically inclined:

canon 5dmkii
70-200mm f4L lens at 200mm
exposure 1/125 at f/11

This was just one photo of dozens and dozens (lots and lots, tons and tons!) I took with various cameras, lenses and settings. Really liked Capricorn Cringe’s moon photo. I’m going to try to get some photos that have some background elements in it along with the moon.

Any tips on moon photography?