Been playing around with shooting at night for awhile. I'm still working on perfecting my skills so 9 out of 10 shots are still crappy. I did however get this shot off - and think it was quite successful.
Sweet shot n-gen
ooh noice
Very nice.
bueno!
amazing.
setup? lens, camera settings?
Nice, i tried and failed a moon shot
Originally posted by: extremeb Nice, i tried and failed a moon shot
As Ansel Adams says, Remember that the moon is a sunlit object and expose it as such. I've never had a long enough lens to get a satisfying moon shot.
Adams is right. For shots here we have the sunny 16 rule - that is, in full sunlight, at f16 - your shutter speed is the reciprocal of the ISO/film speed. (e.g. ISO set to 400, your exposure would be f16 @ 1/400th ish) - for the moon, we use "mooney 11" - so, f11@ 1/400th
Wow, that's a pretty amazing camera lens to get moon detail like that. I had assumed it was taken through a telescope.
I took it with ISO 400, F32 and 1/2 shutter speed. Its only a 255 mm tele lens. But I took the picture with the cameras highest resolution settings, so I could manually zoom in a bit. 4272x2848 in 240 dpi.
First I tried to use a longer shutter speed, but even on the tripod it got too blurry, so I decided on a short setting, it killed the star light, but I got more details of the moon.
Originally posted by: n-gen.dk I took it with ISO 400, F32 and 1/2 shutter speed. Its only a 255 mm tele lens. But I took the picture with the cameras highest resolution settings, so I could manually zoom in a bit. 4272x2848 in 240 dpi.
First I tried to use a longer shutter speed, but even on the tripod it got too blurry, so I decided on a short setting, it killed the star light, but I got more details of the moon.
Next time, if it will let you, I'd open it up to f4/5.6/8 - you will use a shorter shutter speed still, but will gain back some sensitivity towards the stars (and minimize blur). It will be sharper than f32 for a variety of neato optical reasons.
Nice shot as is too tho. 
Cheers mate - Any advise on shooting in low level lighting in B/W. But without tripod`?
fast lens (f2 or faster) - wide open on the aperture. ISO 800 ish. Brace yourself if possible.
Lean against a wall. Take a breath. Let half of it out. Squeeze the shutter gently. (Kinda like firing a rifle.)
I usually shoot several in a row to get a better chance of non-blurriness.
You can also use your camera's timed shutter release to avoid the movement you create by pressing the shutter release with your finger.
Originally posted by: Nat You can also use your camera's timed shutter release to avoid the movement you create by pressing the shutter release with your finger.