Tutorial — Capturing Moon With Texture
Written by Anurag Bhateja on April 24, 2008 – 11:28 am -
Moon is always a source of inspiration for poets, photographers and children. Now shooting the moon with cam is tricky and needs a stable hand to work with, which means you need to practice a lot. Now as moon is only visible in night long exposure is required as there is no enough light. I agree but when we increase the exposure the texture gets vanished and we are not able to click proper textured shot of moon. Here in this image I managed to get clear shot of moon with texture as a very small tricks work here. Please note you must be aware of manual mode for this shot otherwise or the cam is on auto or program, the texture will not come.
1. Now first of all get ready with the with settings Exposure: 1/300, f/3.2, ISO 80. These setting may vary according to time, place and month as in every month the distance of moon, the light and surroundings vary so the shutter speed may go up to 1/60 or may go down to 1/400.
2. Switch off the digital zoom as it will make image look broken.
3. Now the tricky thing is getting the cam stable. You have to either put it on tripod or on some stable place. I have used a table with a block of wood to get tilt in the cam.
4. Set the timer to 2 seconds so that the image do not get shaky.
5. Click it and test several shots with different settings.
Enjoy the moon!
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