How To Capture Moon Shoot

To answer Davelynne question on how to capture moon. Over here I will explain a little bit about it. To capture moon, it is always very tricky because of the bright moon surrounded by darkness. So this will end up a shot where the moon is over expose and you loose the detail of the moon or too bright.Now in order for you to get the detail on the moon is 1st you need to use a zoom lens, ranging between 300mm to 600mm or more. For this shot that I have post in here I use 600mm to capture it. For me to get the detail of the moon I took roughly 6 shots using different exposure setting. In you camera, you have the EV +/- setting where you can adjust the exposure compensation either you want it under or over expose.Down here I put the example of the shot and setting I used to get the moon shots. Usually it is very difficult to get the right exposure but

it a matter of keep trying and trying to get the right exposure using different setting. If you are using a digital SLR then it won't cost you anything to keep shooting. I hope this post helps.
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Twilight shots

This images was shot using a setting of
f4.5 ISO400 and expose about 5 minute.
Camera was mounted on a tripod.
this shot will be much more punchy
if the shutter left open longer than 5 minute.
shooting a night shot means stay awake all night.
make sure when you are shooting night shot,
you get enough sleep during day time.

Tripod and cable release is needed for
this shot.