Shooting the moon/lightning strike

Location : arbroath Spotter Watch Member : no

Hey guys a couple of questions regarding photography

1) Im wanting to try and get a half decent shot of the moon have tried on several occasions and failed
was just wondering what settings i should be doing this on

2)I am also planning on going to florida on holiday next year and as it is the lightning strike capital of the world i was planning on try to photograph some strikes i realise that lightning is very difficult to capture but again some tips on settings would be helpful

Equipment

Canon 350d
Canon 18-55 efs lens
Canon 75-300 ef zoom lens (usm)
And a basic tri-pod

Location : Lincs

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/TRIPOD/TRIPOD4.HTM

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/howtophoto/

The following will give you a table for Moon Rise/Set times for your location. Just enter your lat/long.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php

Lots of other links on Photographing the Moon

http://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB324GB328&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=photographing+the+moon

TJ

Location : Durham. UK Spotter Watch Member : no

A full moon when it's quite high in the sky is a very bright object. Not unlike a car headlight in the dark. Use a tripod, and just make as many different exposures as you can until you get your desired shot, start at something like f8 @125th and then work up or down to get your best image. A low ISO of 100 should suffice. Plus, nearly forgot, a telephoto lens of about 500mm if not, a 300mm and crop it in any image software on your PC.
I have found a full moon just over the horizon at dusk give a better image as it's not as bright, crap in the atmosphere can lose detail though, depends on your location. In short just experiment a bit, it will be around for long enough for you to get the shot you want, sometimes natural world shots take time, lots of it.

Location : Geilenkirchen, Germany Spotter Watch Member : No

The Boss already pretty much summed it all up. Tripod is a must and a long lens. Below is an example I took about a year ago at f8 /125th with ISO 100. I put on my EF 300/4.0 & 1.4 & 2.0 TC which came to a whopping 1344mm Whistle

... unfortunately I no longer own the EF 300/4.0 but with that combination, there wasn't much cropping needed.

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Shooting the moon/lightning strike 14660743

It takes time but the good news is, the moon will be around for quite some time so you'll have plenty of opportunities to practise.
Cheers
Andy

Moderator Location : Between Coventry and Leicester

Tripod is a must have. and some trial and error. 1st shot was taken with a mobile phone hand held, and no cropping Laughing

Shooting the moon/lightning strike Moonscopeandphone

2nd shot was shot with a Sigma 50-500 and a bit of cropping.
the moon is very bright and you will find iso100 fine and also exposures of a few seconds plenty.think i just used AV mode and set it on F14 and got a good focus lock with center weighted and let the camera do the rest.
Shooting the moon/lightning strike Moon800x600

Shooting the moon/lightning strike Moon800x600

Location : Geilenkirchen, Germany Spotter Watch Member : No

Nice picture you took there withthe BIGMA Cheers

Location : Bristol Spotter Watch Member : No

Tripod isn't essential :P

400D + 100-400

Shooting the moon/lightning strike Micmooncomparison1

Shooting the moon/lightning strike Micmooncomparison2

2nd is a larger version of the 1/160th

.mic

Location : Dundee Spotter Watch Member : no

Once you get the hang of taking pictures of the moon you could try this... Wow

http://www.colormoon.pt.to/

Gaz