The moon is approximately one millionth as bright as the sun. If you wait long enough, you can correctly expose a picture under moonlight. Tonight was a full moon, so I thought I’d give it a shot.
8 min @ f/11, ISO 200
I only got off two exposures before some clouds rolled in and ruined my light. This was the first, and was actually a fluke since my cable release (which was a piece of paper taped over the shutter to hold it down) cut out what I thought was too soon. I had gone out the night before to practice and thought I had calculated that it would take about 30 min. at f/11, but apparently it takes much less than that.
The photo is alright, but it’s too Mac Desktop Background-y. The moon will be relatively full tomorrow night too, so I’ll go back out and try some different angles and lenses, weather permitting. I think I’ll stop it down a bit more too.
6 responses so far ↓
elhess2 // June 19, 2008 at 5:35 am |
Nice. Its a full moon here too. I think its big here though. I like it though.
britney // June 19, 2008 at 2:34 pm |
it was a full moon here too!!! proabably because we all have the same moon.
i like it.
Emily Coovert // June 19, 2008 at 7:36 pm |
I like the color more than the black and white. Awesome!
Brad // June 23, 2008 at 2:33 pm |
Color for sure. Good effort. I like it.
Britney // June 26, 2008 at 12:01 pm |
“good effort?” have you turned into jim now brad?
tdmphotography // September 6, 2008 at 3:52 pm |
Nice shots man, love these, night photography is certainly worth the effort. Liking the B&W conversion too.