Night photography is a challenge for beginner photographers. It is not necessary to have a telescope. A telephoto lens is enough to take quite decent pictures of the queen of the night sky - the Moon.
It is necessary
- - Camera;
- - Long focus lens;
- - Tripod.
Instructions
Step 1
So, the first condition for shooting the Moon is a long-focus lens. It is necessary so that the natural satellite of the Earth is visible in the frame, and not a bright small dot, which will look like a photographic defect.
Step 2
The second point - do not shoot the Moon with a shutter speed of more than 1 second, if you do not use a telescope with a tracking mode, otherwise there will be a large, but smeared disk of the Moon in the frame, because no one has canceled the laws of physics - the Earth rotates and the Moon in the frame turns out to be an ellipsoid …
Step 3
The next challenge is that attempts to capture the Moon and the landscape with equal clarity are often doomed to failure. The problem is that the focal length of the lens and the exposure for shooting the Moon is significantly different from the focal length and exposure for shooting a forest or field. To kill two birds with one stone, first shoot the Moon, and then, setting focus and exposure on the same frame of the film, click the forest. This is the so-called multiple exposure. If the camera is digital, then everything is much simpler: a clear image of the moon can be inserted into the corresponding area of the frame already in a graphics editor.
Step 4
A few words about camera settings for shooting a space object of interest to you. The moon is very bright in comparison with the stars, therefore it does not require a large exposure. As for the focal length, on full-frame digital cameras and 35mm film it must be at least 2000mm if you want the Moon to fill the entire frame. Be sure to use a tripod and the self-timer, as you cannot shoot night photography by manually pressing the shutter release. The best time to shoot the moon is when it has risen high into the sky: the atmosphere will be thinner, the image will be clearer. If you want to see the smallest details, then shoot the Moon not on the full moon, but in the first or last quarter.
